Good News From Banjarmasin, High COVID-19 Healed Cases

Banjarmasin City health workers during a meeting to evaluate the COVID-19 vaccination program (ANTARA/Humas Banjarmasin Health Office)

BANJARMASIN - Cases recovered from COVID-19 in Banjarmasin City, South Kalimantan, Tuesday, March 15, were quite high, with an increase of 181 people.

"This is encouraging news, quite a number of COVID-19 patients from our area have recovered," said Plt. Head of the Banjarmasin City Health Office, Machli Riyadi in Banjarmasin, as reported by Antara.

Of course, this joy must be accompanied by continuing to be vigilant, because the transmission of COVID-19 in Banjarmasin City is still happening, even today as many as 12 new cases were informed.

"This means that the discipline of implementing health protocols must continue to be strict, because this is important, so that the transmission does not increase in our city," said Machli.

He also reiterated that the community should support the COVID-19 vaccination program, so that the formation of group immunity in the city is more widespread, so that the transmission of COVID-19 can be anticipated.

"Currently, the percentage of COVID-19 vaccination achievements in our city continues to rise, even now it has reached 88.97 percent of the target target of around 800 thousand people," he said. this person, the total number of cures during this pandemic is 20,358 people.

Meanwhile, with the addition of 12 new cases, the total number of COVID-19 cases in Banjarmasin City during this pandemic was 21,216 cases, so far there are still 261 active cases.

Behind the many who have recovered, there is also sad news because the residents of the City of Banjarmasin who died from COVID-19 have increased by 2, bringing the total cases of death during this pandemic to 597 people.