National COVID-19 Daily Cases Add 1,551, DKI Jakarta Most Contributor

Health workers treat COVID-19 patients in the country. (Between)

JAKARTA - Daily cases of COVID-19 in the country per day increased by 1,551 people. DKI Jakarta Province became the largest contributor with the addition of 699 cases.

Followed by Central Java in fourth position with the addition of 89 cases. East Java is in fifth position with the addition of 85 cases.

According to data from the Ministry of Health, there were 9 provinces that recorded additional COVID-19 cases below 10 cases on Wednesday.

While the number of patients who died from COVID-19 in the country today, there were 29 patients, with Central Java recording the highest number of patients dying, namely 10 people.

Then followed by East Java with 4 patients died. Furthermore, DKI Jakarta recorded 3 patients who died due to COVID-19.

The number of patients who managed to recover from COVID-19 transmission in the country today reached 3,022 patients with the highest number of recovered patients being contributed by West Java Province with 1,165 recovered patients.

The second position is occupied by DKI Jakarta with 532 recovered patients. Central Java is in third position with 225 recovered patients. Banten and Lampung are in fourth and fifth place with 178 and 171 recovered patients respectively.

Nationally, the number of active cases fell by 1,500 cases to 66,475 active cases. The number of specimens examined today was 141,017 specimens with a positivity rate of 1.73 percent.