SURABAYA - The Surabaya City Health Office said the recovery rate of COVID-19 patients in the City of Heroes, East Java, reached 93 percent.
"As of Wednesday, March 2, the recovery rate for COVID-19 patients in Surabaya reached 93.96 percent and the death rate reached 2.52 percent of the total cumulative cases of COVID-19", said Head of the Surabaya City Health Office, Nanik Sukristina, as quoted by Antara, Thursday, March 3rd.
Meanwhile, active cases of COVID-19 in the City of Surabaya based on data on the opponentcovid-19.surabaya.go.id page decreased in the past week, namely on 23 February 2022 as many as 5117 cases and on 2 March 2020 to 3,769 cases.
During this period, she continued, the number of active COVID-19 cases in the city of Surabaya decreased by 1,348 cases.
Not only that, she said, based on the data on the assessment of the COVID-19 situation in the City of Surabaya by the Indonesian Ministry of Health on Sunday 3-4 in February, confirmed cases of COVID-19 were at 455.39 per 100,000 population, to 324.04. per 100 thousand inhabitants.
"The hospitalization rate has reached 31.49 per 100 thousand population, to 27.15 per 100 thousand population. Meanwhile, the positive rate (comparison of the number of positive COVID-19 cases with the number of tests carried out) is 19.17 percent. to 14.51 percent", said Nanik.
Nanik explained, most of the COVID-19 patients in the city of Surabaya in 2022 were in their productive age, i.e. 79.99 percent, with the cause of transmission being the high mobility of the community which increases the risk for exposure.
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Furthermore, she said, for tracing efforts carried out in the city of Surabaya, his party carried out two techniques, namely direct and indirect tracing. In the direct tracing technique, the tracing team officer will visit the patient's home address according to the notification from the Ministry of Health application using PPE and at least an N95 mask.
"Second, namely the indirect tracing technique. Later the officers from the tracing team will contact the patient via telephone according to the number listed on the Ministry of Health application", she said.
She explained, if there are residents who are confirmed to be COVID-19, then tracing will be carried out to find close contacts. After that, it will be followed up by conducting a swab test on all close contacts.
"Patients confirmed positive for COVID-19 who have mild or no symptoms (OTG), will be evacuated to centralized isolation at the Hajj Dormitory or a paid hotel recommended by the Surabaya City Government. Meanwhile, patients with moderate to severe symptoms will be referred to a referral hospital. handling COVID-19 services", she said.
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