COVID-19 Update Sunday, March 28: Positive Adds To 4,083 People, Heals 4,279 People, And Died 85 People

JAKARTA - The Task Force for Handling COVID-19 today, Sunday, March 28 at 12.00 western Indonesia time reported the addition of 4,083 positive cases of the coronavirus to 1,496,085 people.

Then, the number of recovered patients increased by 4,279 people to 1,331,400 people. Meanwhile, 85 people died per day, to a total of 40,449 people.

Meanwhile, the number of people who have received the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccine is 7,243,202, an increase of 64,188 people from the previous record.

Then, the second phase of vaccination was completed by 3,246,455 people, an increase of 12,645 people from the previous one.

According to the spread, DKI Jakarta is still the epicenter of the spread of the coronavirus with a percentage of 25 percent. Followed by West Java 16.5 percent, Central Java 11.3 percent, East Java 9.3 percent, and East Kalimantan 4.2 percent.

Most recently, the government, through the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, said that it had imported 16 million additional COVID-19 vaccines to meet domestic medical needs.

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said the government is targeting the provision of the COVID-19 vaccine to 70 percent of Indonesians by the end of 2021.

According to him, the vaccination program is very important to achieve herd immunity so that he can return to normal activities while at the same time encouraging the process of national economic recovery.

"Vaccinations have been carried out and the target is that by the end of the year 70 percent of the population will have been vaccinated," he said on Saturday, March 27.