COVID-19 Update As Of November 21: 314 New Cases, 331 Cures

ILLUSTRATION ANTARA

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) released the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 as of today. The cumulative total cases are 4,253,214 people with new cases today reaching 314 people.

Meanwhile, on Sunday, November 21, 331 people recovered, bringing the total to 4,101,547 recovered. Meanwhile, positive confirmed cases who died increased by 11 people and a total of 143,739 people.

Meanwhile, the province with the newest cases is DKI Jakarta with 11 new cases and a total of 863,456. Followed by West Java with 36 new cases and a total of 707,314 cases. Then, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) with 35 cases and a total of 63,926 cases.

Then, East Java with 22 cases, and the total cases reached 399,127. Then, Central Java with 22 new cases and a cumulative case of 486,054. Furthermore, Riau with 12 new cases, and the total reached 128,563.

It was also reported that there were eight provinces that reported no additional new cases, namely West Sumatra, South Sumatra, Bengkulu, Riau Islands, North Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, West Sulawesi, and North Maluku.

The province with the most recovered cases today belongs to DKI Jakarta with an increase of 121 cases. Then, followed by Lampung with 33 cases recovered, Central Java with 28 cases, West Java with 24 cases, and East Java with 20 cases.

"The highest death cases were in East Java, 3 people. Followed by West Java and Central Java, 2 people each," according to data from the Ministry of Health

In addition, the number of specimens that have been examined per day is 239,180. Meanwhile, cumulatively it reached 51,997,773. As for the details, 29,405,415 were examined by RT-PCR, 248,615 were examined by the TMC method and 22,343,743 people were tested for antigen.

"For the number of people suspected of contracting COVID-19 or who are currently categorized as suspected cases, it is recorded at 3,602 people," he said.

Then, the weekly positivity rate for people from November 14 to 20, 2021 is 0.22 percent. Meanwhile, the daily positivity rate for people is 0.16 percent.

Currently, the number of people who have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination has increased by 393,277 and the total has reached 134,418,286 people, and the second dose of vaccination is 460,144 people, the cumulative total has reached 89,220,341 people.

While the third dose of vaccination was not added, and the total was 1,203,846. Meanwhile, the target for vaccination was 208,265,720 people.