32 People Died Of COVID-19 In Cirebon During February

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CIREBON - The Cirebon District Health Office, West Java, recorded that during February 2022 the number of deaths due to COVID-19 reached 32 people, while the addition of confirmed cases in the same period reached 3,964 cases. " said Head of the Immunization and Surveillance Section of Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) of the Cirebon Regency Health Office, Dendi Hamdi in Cirebon, Wednesday, March 2. Months of active cases in the area only amounted to 62 people. Meanwhile, at the end of February active cases due to COVID-19 in Cirebon Regency, reached 1,675 people with 266 people undergoing treatment and 1,409 people undergoing self-isolation.

In the same period, the total cases of residents exposed to COVID-19 even reached 3,964 cases, and showed a fairly sharp increase, even reaching 300 new cases a day. Dedi said that for COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, March 2, there were an addition of 141 new cases with the death of one person, and the number of recovered cases increased by 85 people. "A total of 141 new cases are spread across 36 sub-districts in Cirebon Regency," he said. Dendi added that 59 of the 141 cases were from suspects, 68 from screening activities, and 14 new cases came from close contacts.