COVID-19 Update As Of March 26: 426 New Cases, 246 Recovered Cases

Illustration of COVID-19 vaccination. (United Nation)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) released the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 as of today. A total of 10,625 specimens were examined with the results of 426 new positive cases of COVID-19.

The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 6,744,033 people and active cases have increased by 180 to 4,532 cases, said Ministry of Health data, Sunday, March 26.

Today's recovered cases increased by 246 cases, bringing the total to 6,578,507 recovered people. Then, there was no positive confirmation that he died, bringing the total to 160,994 people.

The province with the highest new cases was in DKI Jakarta with 205 cases, bringing the total to 1,545,542 cases. Followed by West Java with 81 new cases bringing the total to 1,238,299.

Then, East Java had 47 new cases with a total of 638,798. Then, Banten with 35 new cases so that a total of 367,183 cases. Followed by Central Java with 25 new cases bringing the total to 656,566 cases.

The province with the most recovered cases today belongs to DKI Jakarta with an additional 101 recovered. Followed by West Java with an additional 55 recovered cases, and Banten with 34 recovered cases, and East Java with an additional 32 recovered cases.

In addition, the number of specimens that had been examined using RT-PCR, TCM, and antigen reached 115,852,343.

"Positive results per number of people examined or this week's positivity rate of 4.41 percent", he wrote.

The number of people suspected of contracting COVID-19 or currently categorized as suspected cases is 654 people. Currently, 34 provinces have had cases of COVID-19.

To date, 203,820,924 people have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination and 174,850,112 people have received the second dose of vaccination.

While the third dose of vaccination was 68,606,810 and the fourth dose of vaccination was 3,060,600. Meanwhile, the target for vaccination in Indonesia is 234,666,020 people.