350 Batam Residents Confirmed By COVID-19 In A Day

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BATAM - Batam City, Riau Islands COVID-19 Handling Task Force recorded an additional 350 people were confirmed to have been exposed to COVID-19.

"Today, the number of confirmed cases is 350, a cumulative 28.391 people," said a statement from the COVID-19 Task Force distributed by Spokesman Azril Apriansyah, in Batam, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, February 23.

The task force also recorded an additional 57 people completing isolation, bringing the total to 25,649 people who have recovered.

On this day, five additional people died, bringing a total of 860 people who died with the status of being exposed to the Coronavirus during the pandemic.

With this addition, now the number of active COVID-19 cases is 1.882 people.

Those who are still active with COVID-19, 571 of them are undergoing independent isolation at the Hajj Dormitory, 385 people are still in the evacuation process, 325 people are self-isolating, 132 people are being treated at the Galang Island Hospital, and others are being treated at 14 hospitals across the city.

"The cure rate is 90.349 percent, the death rate is 3.029 percent, and active cases are 6.662 percent," said the Task Force.

It was also noted that COVID-19 had spread to the buffer islands of Batam City. Of the three buffer sub-districts, two of them are COVID-19 yellow zones, namely Behindpadang and Bulang, with one and two people still active with COVID-19.

Meanwhile, the other buffer sub-district, Galang, is now a green zone. On the main island, the entire COVID-19 red zone.

The Task Force report also stated that the results of the assessment of the COVID-19 situation as of February 21, 2022, were level 3.

Community transmission received a level 3 assessment with 139.19 confirmed cases per 100 thousand inhabitants per week, level 2 hospitalizations with 6.84 per 100 thousand inhabitants per week, and level 1 deaths with 0.25 per 100 thousand inhabitants per week.

Then the response capacity is rated as moderate. In terms of testing, the positivity rate is 8.40 percent per week, tracing is considered adequate with a ratio of close contacts examined 16.80 per confirmed case per week, and adequate treatment with 29.14 percent Bed Occupancy Rate (BOR) per week.

While vaccination was considered adequate, 114.86 percent of the target population received the first dose of vaccine.