Bandung City Health Office Records The Increase In The Number Of COVID-19 By 10 Times In Early 2022

BANDUNG - The Bandung City Health Office (Dinkes) noted that the number of active cases of COVID-19 during January 2022 increased more than 10 times.

"So the daily cases in Bandung City have increased in the last two weeks. If we monitor January, it is 10 times, compared to the first two weeks," said Head of Disease Prevention and Control at the Bandung City Health Office Rosye Arosdiani in Bandung, West Java, Antara, Wednesday, February 2nd.

Based on data from the COVID-19 Information Center page, on January 18, 2022, the number of active COVID-19 cases was 34 people. Then on January 31, 2022, the number of active COVID-19 cases increased to 522 people.

Rosye said the additional cases were obtained because many people from the city of Bandung were examined or tested for COVID-19 when traveling. So that even though they are examined in other areas, according to him, the addition of cases remains the data for the City of Bandung because confirmed cases are determined based on domicile.

"Everything is connected so they can get the data. And indeed, in the last two weeks, many residents of Bandung City have been positive," he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of the Bandung City COVID-19 Handling Task Force Asep S Gufron said that so far the data on residents who were confirmed to have COVID-19 of the Omicron variant still amounted to six people.

So that the data on the increase in cases in the city of Bandung, which now amounts to more than 500 people, cannot be said to be confirmed by Omicron. Meanwhile, according to him, hundreds of people who were confirmed to have COVID-19 were dominated by patients with mild symptoms.

"Most of them are self-isolating because their symptoms are mild, but if there are severe symptoms, it is immediately recommended to be isolated centrally at the West Java BPSDM," said Asep.