Down Almost 50 Percent From Last Week, 210 COVID-19 Patients In Palu City Left

Illustration- A number of residents wait for their families who are being treated in emergency tents in the courtyard of Anutapura Hospital (ANTARA)

PALU - The Palu City Health Office (Dinkes) said that there were 210 confirmed positive COVID-19 patients in the provincial capital of Central Sulawesi since the last week.

The number of patients decreased compared to the previous data with 400 active cases.

"Active cases in Palu continue to slope as we collect data from a number of hospitals that are treating COVID patients," said the Surveillance Team of the Palu City Health Office, Rochmat Jasin, who was contacted in Palu, Antara, Friday, March 25.

Rochmat explained, of the 210 active cases, 74 of them are undergoing treatment in an isolation room.

As well as 18 patients being treated at Undata Hospital, nine patients at Madani Hospital, 23 patients at Anutapura Hospital, nine patients at Sindho Hospital, seven patients at Bhayangkara Hospital and nine patients at Woodward Hospital, as well as 136 others undergoing self-isolation.

According to him, the handling of COVID-19 continues to show good progress so that in the last two weeks of 700 cases, Palu was able to reduce the number of 210 cases.

"The sloping down of cases cannot be separated from the hard work of the parties who are technically involved in handling and prevention efforts, therefore it is hoped that in the following weeks it will be even more depressed at the lowest number to zero cases," said Rochmat.

He stated that until now the Surveillance team is still carrying out 3T tasks (testing, tracing and treatment) as an early detection effort for possible transmission of new cases.

This is because the 3T effort, according to Rochmat, is considered quite effective in monitoring fluctuations or fluctuations in cases.

The data collected will then be used as a reference by the local government for various interventions to handle COVID-19.

"Based on the data collected, the risk of death at the peak of the third wave or the impact of the new variant of Omicron, especially the residents of Palu in 2022, is temporarily low, not less than 10 cases, when compared to the second wave of 2021, 183 cases of death and 43 cases in 2020 , said Rochmat

He added that the decline in active cases was in line with the increasing achievement of vaccination at the first dose of 99.3 percent or 263,497 people and the second dose of vaccination reaching 72.7 percent or 192,877 people. The target was 265,462 people.

"Vaccination needs to be boosted so that herd immunity or group immunity can be realized quickly. Entering the month of Ramadan, we continue to boost prevention efforts so that residents are not disturbed by fasting," said Rochmat.