The Last Few Days In South Kalimantan There Were No Additional COVID-19 Patients

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BANJARMASIN - For the past three days, the City of Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan has been able to survive without contributing additional COVID-19 cases at the provincial level.

According to a report from the South Kalimantan Provincial Health Office on Saturday, today, there were 3 additional cases of COVID-19 transmission, namely, 2 cases from Banjar Regency and 1 case from Banjarbaru City.

The day before, there were 3 additional cases, none from Banjarmasin City, and on April 14 2022 there were 6 additional cases in South Kalimantan and none from Banjarmasin City.

"We must be able to maintain this so that there will be no additional transmission of COVID-19, in addition to continuing to discipline health protocols as well as vaccinations," said Acting Head of the Banjarmasin City Health Office, Machli Riyadi in Banjarmasin, Saturday, April 16.

According to him, the COVID-19 case in Banjarmasin City has been very sloping, but it cannot be said to be safe, because the data on infected residents still exist.

From his side's records, there are still 6 COVID-19 patients, namely 4 of them are self-isolating and 2 people are being treated in hospital.

From the records of the Banjarmasin City Health Office, there were 20,997 cases of COVID-19 during this pandemic, of which 19,733 people have recovered and 606 people have died.

Meanwhile, the COVID-19 vaccination program in Banjarmasin City has reached 91.79 percent for the first dose of injection.

Meanwhile, the achievement of the second dose of vaccination was 73.59 percent and the achievement of the third or booster injection was 16.65 percent of the total target of 516 thousand targets.