BATAM - The number of recovered cases of COVID-19 patients in Batam City, Riau Islands, reached 95.93 percent. COVID-19 recovery data continues to increase compared to last week at 92.82 percent.

"The cure rate is 95.93 percent, the death rate is 2.89 percent, and the active case rate is 1.17 percent," said Batam City COVID-19 Task Force Spokesperson Azril Apriansyah, Monday, March 14, quoted from Antara.

In total, since the beginning of the pandemic, he said, there have been 30,807 confirmed cases of COVID-19, 29,554 of whom completed isolation, 893 died, and 360 active cases.

In the past week, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has continued to decline. Meanwhile, residents who completed isolation increased.

On this day alone, there were 16 additional confirmed positive cases of COVID-19, then 128 people completed isolation, and none died.

Meanwhile, of the 360 people who are still active with COVID-19, 272 of them are undergoing self-isolation, nine people are in the evacuation process, and others are being treated at 14 referral hospitals across the city.

It is also noted that COVID-19 cases have spread to the buffer islands of Batam City.

Of the three buffer sub-districts, all three are yellow zones. Bulang, Galang and Behindpadang with one case each, two cases, and seven active cases of COVID-19

While on the main island, in Batuampar, Bengkong and Nongsa sub-districts, it is in the orange zone, and Lubukbaja is in the yellow zone. The other five sub-districts are COVID-19 red zones.

In the Task Force report, it was also stated that the results of the COVID-19 situation assessment as of March 11, 2022 were PPKM level 2.

Community transmission received a level 2 assessment with 37.77 confirmed cases per 100 thousand inhabitants per week, hospitalization level 1 with 3.48 per 100 thousand inhabitants per week, and level 1 deaths with 0.31 per 100 thousand inhabitants per week.

Then the response capacity is considered adequate. In terms of testing, the positivity rate is 3.99 percent per week, tracking is considered adequate with a ratio of close contacts examined 15.36 per confirmed case per week, and treatment is adequate with 26.50 percent BOR per week.

While the vaccination was considered adequate, 115.46% of the target population received the first dose of vaccine.


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