Following up to Message 33395504
my friend has wisely called off the next leg of his journey, to Jakarta, the primary purpose of him transmitting Hong Kong to take care of some stuff here as by-the-way
Friend lives in SF Bay Area, his family of wife and three kids were all sick w/ CoVid, with himself being the exception, and before the trip here to HK he got Pfizer-ed 30-days before embarkation
Seems astute and agile under the enveloping circumstances. He is a good commodities trader.
edition.cnn.com
Almost half of this capital city's population may have contracted Covid-19, survey finds
(CNN) — Nearly half of Jakarta's residents may have contracted Covid-19, according to a health survey -- more than 12 times the number of cases officially recorded in the Indonesian capital at the time when the research was carried out.
The survey, published July 10, tested for coronavirus antibodies in the blood of about 5,000 people across the city from March 15-31. The results showed 44.5% of those tested had antibodies, indicating they had been infected with Covid-19.
The report was a collaboration between the Jakarta Provincial Health Office, the University of Indonesia's Faculty of Public Health, the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology and staff from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) based in Indonesia.
Jakarta has a population of about 10.6 million, government figures show. According to the researchers, as many as 4.7 million people may have been infected in the capital by March 31.
"Through this survey, we can estimate the proportion of Jakarta residents who have been infected by the SARS CoV-2 virus, whether identified by PCR tests or not," said Widyastuti, head of Jakarta's Provincial Health Office, in an online press conference on July 10, state-run news agency Antara reported.
According to Indonesian Health Ministry data, Jakarta had recorded more than 382,000 cases of Covid-19 on March 31, when the survey ended. By Tuesday, that number had shot up to 689,243.
This uptick in the capital comes as Indonesia -- the world's fourth most populous nation -- faces a dire stage in its battle with the pandemic, recordingtens of thousands of daily cases and up to 1,000 deaths a day nationwide in one of Asia's worst outbreaks.
Hospitals across the country, notably on the island of Java -- where Jakarta is located -- have been pushed to the brink by the spread of the highly infectious Delta variant, with several cities including the capital placed under partial lockdown.
Dr. Pandu Riono, an epidemiologist from the University of Indonesia's school of public health, said the survey found some people are at higher risk than others, Antara reported.
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