{"id":90058,"date":"2020-08-31T19:43:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=90058"},"modified":"2020-08-31T19:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:43:55","slug":"new-cases-in-jakarta-exceed-1000-mark-for-two-consecutive-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=90058","title":{"rendered":"New cases in Jakarta exceed 1,000 mark for two consecutive days"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JAKARTA, Aug 31 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The number of new COVID-19 positive cases in Jakarta exceeded the 1,000 mark for the second consecutive day today, bringing the tally to 40,086.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesian government spokesperson for COVID-19 Prof Wiku Adisasmito said in a press conference broadcast via Indonesia\u2019s Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) official YouTube channel that a total of 1,049 new positive cases were recorded in the province in the past 24 hours, after recording 1,094 new positive cases yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the Jakarta authorities needed to be stricter in enforcing the rules set through the transitional phase of the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB), which included the mandatory use of face masks&nbsp;and physical distancing in public places as well as at work and houses&nbsp;of worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 positive cases in Indonesia to date has reached 174,796, an increase of 2,743 cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between noon yesterday and noon today, 74 deaths were also reported, bringing the overall death toll to 7,417 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Java province recorded the second highest number of positive cases at 33,543.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The province recorded the highest death toll at 2,370, followed by Jakarta (1,198), Central Java (998), South Sulawesi (360) and the rest in other provinces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKARTA, Aug 31 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The number of new COVID-19 positive cases in Jakarta exceeded the 1,000 mark for the second consecutive day today, bringing the tally to 40,086. Indonesian government spokesperson for COVID-19 Prof Wiku Adisasmito said in a press conference broadcast via Indonesia\u2019s Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) official YouTube channel that a total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":25058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90058"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}