Good News, More Patients Recovering From COVID-19 In Palangka Raya

PALANGKA RAYA - Deputy Mayor of Palangka Raya, Umi Mastikah said that 30 COVID-19 patients in the capital of Central Kalimantan Province were declared cured so that the accumulation of people recovered from the coronavirus reached 6.647 people or 88.82 percent of the total positive cases.

"The data is based on the COVID-19 Task Force report yesterday, July 2. Although the recovery rate is high, health protocols must continue to be applied", said Umi in Palangka Raya, Saturday, July 3.

Moreover, he continued, as reported by Antara, the Palangka Raya Task Force still recorded the addition of 78 positive cases of COVID-19 so that the accumulation of local residents who were positive for the virus reached 7.484 people.

Furthermore, based on data from the Palangka Raya COVID-19 Task Force in the "City of Beauty" area, there were 608 people who were positive and still undergoing treatment, or 8.12 percent of the total positive cases.

Of all the existing COVID-19 cases, 229 people in the capital city of Central Kalimantan province died after two additional cases of residents died due to exposure to COVID-19. Meanwhile, there are 1.234 people with suspected COVID-19 status.

The data was collected from all areas in Palangka Raya City covering five sub-districts covering 30 urban villages. The increasing number of COVID-19 cases, according to the woman who became the first woman to become deputy mayor in Palangka Raya, is also a form of the health team's success in tracing close contacts between the community and positive patients.

As an effort to break the chain of the spread of COVID-19, the Palangka Raya City Government, through the task force team, continues to make various efforts, ranging from socialization, early detection, security to case handling.

The Palangka Raya City Government also advises people in the Central Kalimantan Province capital area to always implement the COVID-19 health protocol as an effort to minimize potential and prevent the chain of spreading COVID-19 that never ends.

In addition, she also asked residents in the local city to participate in the success of the implementation of the COVID-19 vaccine, especially those that were targeted and included in the criteria including the elderly in the local city so that the vaccine achievement target set by the government was immediately achieved.