COVID-19 Cases In Tarakan Increase

TARAKAN - In recent days cases of COVID-19 in Tarakan, North Kalimantan, have begun to increase due to close contact, said Tarakan City Health Office Head Devi Ika Indriarti.

Based on data on Saturday, November 12 from the Tarakan City Health Office, it was stated that the number of residents exposed to COVID-19 was 93 cases, 16 recovered patients, and 17,248 confirmed cumulative COVID-19.

"The number of COVID-19 patients who died increased by one person on November 9, 2022. Patients were comorbid and came to the hospital already in a severe COVID-19 situation," Devi said, quoted by Antara, Sunday, November 13.

Currently in Tarakan there are eight suspected cases and 120 close contacts.

On November 11, 2022, the daily cases of COVID-19 nationally have cases above 6,000, namely 6,247 daily cases with a positivity rate rising at 21.74 percent. The last time the daily positivity rate was this high in August 2021 was still a wave of COVID-19 Delta.

He said that currently the number of COVID-19 cases in Kaltara was 19th nationally with a total of 23. Meanwhile, the total population of Kaltara Province as a result of the 2020 Population Census (September 2020) amounted to 701,814 people.