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View all search resultsData discrepancies explain virus surge in West Java
West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil has blamed Thursday’s spike of 1,648 daily cases in the province on data discrepancies.
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West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil has blamed Thursday’s spike of 1,648 daily cases in the province on data discrepancies.
The governor said that 1,000 of the 1,648 cases reported by the Health Ministry came from outdated data.
“So we can not call it a surge,” Ridwan said on Friday, adding a similar issue was reported in Central Java.
He explained that in order to submit a case report, the regional administration had to pass through two steps, with the first step involving reports on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing and the second involving the submission of all results to the COVID-19 data system, which is connected to the Health Ministry’s server.
“Yesterday I saw that Depok had actually uploaded 100 cases, but it failed to submit them. Some [other regions] also reported 100 cases but it came out different when it was announced,” Ridwan said.
