The estimate is based on monitoring cases of the variant in other countries.
Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin estimates that the peak of cases of the new Omicron COVID-19 variants BA.4 and BA.5 will only reach a maximum of 25,000 cases per day.
The estimate is based on monitoring cases of the variant in other countries.
"We believe that there will be an increase, maybe a maximum of 25 thousand per day," Budi said in an online statement, on the sidelines of the State Welcoming event for the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, at the Bogor Palace, West Java, Thursday (16/6/2022).
Budi explained, in South Africa as the first country to identify the new SARS-CoV-2 variant, the peak of BA.4 and BA.5 cases was only a third of the peak of Covid-19 cases due to infection with the previous omicron or delta variant.
That means, if at the peak of the previous delta and omicron variants in Indonesia there were 60 thousand cases per day, it is estimated that the peak of new variants of BA.4 and BA.5 would only reach 20 thousand to 25 thousand cases per day. (antara)
