Innalilahi, One Month Positive Baby COVID-19 Dies

Funeral illustration (Antara)

JAKARTA - A baby boy with the initials MA, one month and seven days old, a resident of Gunung Lingkas Village, Tarakan City, North Kalimantan, who was confirmed positive for COVID-19 died.

"There are four additional people who tested positive for COVID-19 who died," said Tarakan, Devi Ika Indriarti, spokesperson for the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19 in Tarakan, reported by Antara, Friday, January 22.

Meanwhile, three other positive patients who died with the initials 1 (75) were residents of Lingkas Ujung Village, NS (62), residents of Karang Anyar Pantai Village and L (62) residents of Gunung Lingkas Village.

The number of confirmed cases who died was 49 and the number of probable cases who died was three people. Meanwhile, the number of COVID-19 patients treated was 1,412 people.

The number of positive cases of COVID-19 increased by 92 people, so the cumulative number of confirmed cases was 3,386 people.

Then there were eight more patients who recovered from COVID-19, so that the number of patients recovered was 1,925 people.

Currently there are 312 suspected cases being monitored in Tarakan, namely people with symptoms of ARI.

"And in the last 14 days before symptoms appear, they have a travel history or live in a country / territory of Indonesia that reports local transmission," said Devi.

People with one of the symptoms of ARI and the last 14 days before symptoms appeared had a history of contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19, people with severe ARI or severe pneumonia who needed hospitalization and no other cause based on a convincing clinical picture.

"The total number of close contacts currently being monitored is 2,271 people. "Close contacts are people who have a history of contact with probable cases or confirmed cases of COVID-19," he said.

Devi also appealed to the people of Tarakan to continue to provide moral support to patients or families of suspected cases, probable cases, close contacts and confirmed cases.