Case Spike Expected until February
The peak of the spike in Covid-19 cases is expected to take place in the third week of January to the first week of February 2021. At that time, more hospital rooms are needed.
A health worker carries a patient in a simulated Covid-19 patient in an emergency elevator to the treatment room at the Bogor City Field Hospital in the Pajajaran Sports Hall complex, Bogor City, West Java, Sunday (17/1/2021), before the hospital starts to be used. The field hospital, which uses the former athlete's mess building, was used as an additional room for handling Covid-19 patients in the City of Bogor and began operating Monday (18/1/2021).
JAKARTA, KOMPAS— The peak of the spike in Covid-19 cases is expected to take place in the third week of January to the first week of February 2021. At that time, more hospital rooms are needed.
At present, the 951 hospitals with 50,942 isolation beds and intensive care rooms (ICU) for Covid-19 patients show a fairly high bed occupancy rate. There are 11 provinces where bed occupancy rate is greater than the World Health Organization (WHO) threshold of 60 percent, including Jakarta (83 percent), Banten (79 percent), Yogyakarta (78 percent), West Java (73 percent), and East Java (69 percent).
