The Wisma Atlet COVID-19 emergency hospital and quarantine facility in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta is now more than half full, as cases soar in Jakarta amid an Omicron wave.
As of 8am today, Wisma Atlet, which is often used as a gauge to measure how medical facilities in Jakarta are faring during the pandemic by virtue of being the first dedicated quarantine and treatment facility for COVID-19 patients in the capital, is occupied by 5,174 patients. The facility welcomed 204 new patients overnight.
Wisma Atlet has a capacity to house 9,357 patients, meaning that 55.29 percent of beds are currently occupied.
The Health Ministry on Tuesday declared that Indonesia has officially entered its third COVID-19 wave amid a surge in cases driven by the Omicron variant. Indonesia recorded 17,895 new cases on Feb. 2 — the highest so far this year — with 9,132 coming from Jakarta.
Jakarta’s COVID-19 hospital bed occupancy rate is currently at 60 percent, while the occupancy rate for ICUs is at 28 percent. Both rates have been gradually climbing over the past couple of weeks.
Taking Omicron’s relatively milder symptoms in patients, the government has instructed medical facilities to only admit those truly at risk from COVID-19, while urging those who are asymptomatic or have mild symptoms to self-isolate.
