Indonesia To See Surge In Covid-19 Cases In Mid-June

JAKARTA, Indonesia (Xinhua) Concerns about an increase in positive cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia following the Eid al-Fitr may come true as the government has predicted that there would be a rise in the cases by 50 percent in mid-June.

Chairman of the National Committee for Handling COVID-19 and Economic Recovery and Coordinating Minister for the Economy Airlangga Hartarto said that currently there is a trend of increasing active cases of COVID-19, which must be watched out for after the Eid festivities.

The daily confirmed active cases began to show an increasing trend in recent days in the country. According to the Health Ministry on Saturday, the COVID-19 cases in the country rose by 6,565 within one day to 1,809,926, with the death toll adding by 162 to 50,262.

The rate of the national active cases stands at 5.4 percent, lower than the global figure of 8.8 percent. However, we need to anticipate the increasing trend of active cases since the past week, the senior minister said.

A lesson from the previous long holidays is that the spike in cases occurred in four to five weeks after the holidays, Airlangga was quoted by Antara news agency as saying here Thursday.