Good News From Batam City, Only 121 Active COVID-19 Cases Remain

Residents of Batam City, Riau Islands undergo observation before receiving an injection of the COVID-19 vaccine. some time ago. (Photo: Naim/Antara)

JAKARTA - The Task Force for Handling COVID-19 in Batam City, Riau Islands, recorded 121 residents who were still positively active, as more and more residents were recovering and there were fewer additional residents who were confirmed positive. 23 percent, and the active case rate is 0.47 percent," said the statement from the COVID-19 Handling Task Force distributed by the Head of the Batam Communications and Informatics Agency Azril Apriansyah, reported by Antara, Tuesday, September 14. On Tuesday alone, five additional people were confirmed positive for COVID. -19, as many as 20 people were declared cured and two people died. It was recorded that a total of 25,696 people who were confirmed positive during the pandemic, 24,745 of them recovered, and 830 people died. Leaving 121 people who are still active COVID-19.

Still from the data from the Task Force, of the 121 active cases of COVID-19, 53 of them underwent self-isolation, 30 people were in integrated isolation, and others were being treated at 11 referral hospitals. COVID-19 cases spread to buffer islands. Of the three hinterland sub-districts, only one has zero active cases of COVID-19, namely Bulang. The other two sub-districts are yellow zone, namely Behindpadang and Galang with one person being treated each. Meanwhile on the main island, of the nine sub-districts, five of them are yellow zone namely Batuampar, Lubuk Baja, Nongsa, Sei Beduk, and Bengkong. Then one pink zone namely Sagulung, and the three red zones, namely Batuaji, Sekupang, and Batam Kota. Still in the report of the Task Force, it was stated that out of 830 cases of death in Batam, 429 of them were without comorbidities, and 401 others with comorbidities. COVID-19 is diabetes mellitus as many as 214 cases, hypertension as many as 179 cases, and pneumonia as many as 104 cases.*