Bad News, COVID-19 Cases In Bekasi Increase After The 2022 Christmas And New Year Holidays

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JAKARTA - The Bekasi Regency COVID-19 Handling Task Force, West Java, recorded an increase in the number of active cases of the corona virus in the area after the 2022 Christmas and New Year Holidays.

"The Christmas and New Year holidays are used by the community to travel out of town. This is what causes the findings of COVID-19 cases to tend to increase in early 2022," said Deputy Spokesperson for the Bekasi Regency COVID-19 Task Force, Masrikoh in Cikarang, quoted from Antara, Sunday January 9th.

He said the trend of increasing COVID-19 cases had occurred since the Christmas and New Year holidays were over. On Saturday, January 1, there were only 19 active cases in the area.

A day later, there were three additional active cases bringing the total to 22 cases, but on Monday, January 3, one active patient was declared cured, so the number of cases was reduced to 21 patients.

"But on Tuesday there was an addition of one more case, bringing the total to 22 more cases," he said.

The next day or Wednesday, January 5, his party again found three people who were confirmed positive for COVID-19 so that the active cases increased again to 25 patients.

"The next day, Thursday, January 6, there were three more people who were exposed to COVID-19. The number of cases again rose to 28 patients," he said.

Furthermore, on Friday, January 7, there were six additional new cases, bringing the total to 34 patients, although the following day seven people were declared cured and this resulted in a change in the number of active cases to 27 cases.

"However, today there are three new cases added, so the current number of active cases is 30 patients," he said.

Masrikoh ensured that all active cases that occurred during this week were ordinary COVID-19 cases and not the newest variant, namely Omicron.

"Until today, we have not found a case of COVID-19 Omicron in Bekasi Regency," he said.

Cumulatively, he said, the total number of COVID-19 cases found in Bekasi Regency since March 2020 has reached 51,493 cases, with details of 50,920 cases being declared cured, 543 people dying, and 30 active cases.