Indonesia will beef up the capacity of hospitals to further facilitate COVID-19 patients whose number has spiked as of late along with new record high of additional cases.

The Indonesian COVID-19 Response Team's Chairperson Airlangga Hartarto said on Thursday that the government pledged to maximize all the health facilities nationwide, including those in the country's capital of Jakarta which has decided to re-impose a partial lockdown policy as cases are surging.

"The government has sufficient funds and will persistently raise the capacity of (hospitals') rooms to meet the demands," the chairperson told a virtual press briefing.

The statement came after Jakarta's Governor Anies Baswedan on Wednesday evening warned that about 70 percent of the 4,053 COVID-19 isolation rooms of the hospitals in the city have already been occupied, saying that a partial lockdown must be applied again as of Monday since the number of the cases has been alarming.

In addition, Hartarto who is concurrently the Indonesian chief economic minister said that the government will boost the Wisma Atlet Kemayoran's capacity and set up more isolation rooms.

The Wisma Atlet Kemayoran is a former athlete village in central Jakarta, which has been turned into an emergency hospital for COVID-19 patients.

"The facilities including the number of rooms will be boosted. The government stresses that there are no limited health facilities," he expounded.

Several hotels would also be used as health facilities in dealing with the battle against the virus outbreak, Hartarto said.

The government has paid more attention to fighting against the virus transmissions as of late in the hope it would create a strong basis for the recovery of the economy which has been dashed by the virus pandemic.

President Joko Widodo has set up a task force to speed up efforts to procure vaccines for the virus.

Since days ago, Indonesia has made daily new record high of additional COVID-19 cases. On Thursday, the country also posed a new record high of the daily confirmed cases of 3,861, bringing the total to 207,203 with 147,510 people recovered and 8,456 dead.

Indonesia is to begin mass vaccination for the COVID-19 in January 2021, according to the president.