Good News From Bangka Belitung, 98 Percent Of Beds In COVID-19 Isolation Facilities Are Empty

Photo Archive. COVID-19 patients are quarantined in a centralized isolation facility. (AMONG)

PANGKALPINANG - More than 98 percent of beds available in centralized isolation facilities for COVID-19 patients in the Bangka Belitung Islands Province are empty, according to data from the local COVID-19 Task Force.

Secretary of the COVID-19 Task Force for the Bangka Belitung Islands Province, Mikron Antariksa, said that 929 beds or 98.5 percent of the total 943 beds available in centralized isolation facilities (isoters) were empty.

"Today, only 14 beds in the isoter are filled with COVID-19 patients," he said in Pangkalpinang, as reported by Antara, Monday, March 21.

He said that there were 1.979 COVID-19 patients who were still required to undergo quarantine in the Province of the Bangka Belitung Islands, with details of 1.820 people undergoing independent isolation, 14 people undergoing quarantine in centralized isolation facilities, and the rest undergoing treatment in hospitals.

"Currently, the bed occupancy rate for COVID-19 patients is only 1.48 percent," he said.

He said that the transmission of COVID-19 had subsided and the regional government was continuing to try to suppress the transmission of the disease caused by the corona virus infection.

"Thank God, COVID-19 cases have declined again and this continues to be suppressed through increased supervision of the implementation of health protocols and mass vaccinations," he said.