COVID-19 Update as of November 22: There are 7,644 New Cases

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JAKARTA - The COVID-19 Task Force on Tuesday reported that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Indonesia increased by 7,644 cases.

From the addition of these cases to date, the number of people who have been infected with the Coronavirus has reached 6,620,317 people.

Active cases were also recorded to increase by 2,609 people, bringing the total to 62,196 people undergoing medical treatment and self-isolation.

As reported by ANTARA, Tuesday, November 22, the addition of the most positive confirmed cases of COVID-19 was contributed by DKI Jakarta with 2,844 cases, followed by West Java with 1,671 cases, and Banten with 950 cases.

Meanwhile, the number of cases of people who died to date has increased by 51 people, bringing the total number of lives that have been taken from the Sars Cov-2 virus to as many as 159,473 people.

DKI Jakarta became the province that contributed the most deaths, namely 14 people, while the provinces of East Java were seven, Bali was five, and West Java and DI Yogyakarta were four.

Meanwhile, 4,984 people have recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total to 6,398,648.

Most of the recovery rates were contributed by DKI Jakarta as many as 1785 people, then Banten 696 people, and East Java 667 people.

Based on data from laboratory tests and health facilities that carried out the examination, there were 6,185 suspects examined today with a total of 89,337 specimens.

From this data, it was recorded that the daily specimen positivity rate was 16.37 percent and the daily positivity rate was 23.74 percent.

Previously, the Director of Health Promotion and Community Empowerment of the Ministry of Health, Widyawati, reminded the public not to be careless in implementing health protocols because COVID-19 still exists even though the case has been sloping in recent times.

"Because maybe now it's a little sloping, so ignore it", she said at a seminar in Jakarta.

Widyawati noted that reflecting on the experience, the trend of increasing COVID-19 cases in Indonesia was partly due to people not being aware of implementing health protocols, namely wearing masks, washing hands with water and soap, maintaining distance, staying away from crowds, and reducing mobility.

"The high mobility of the community is also the cause of the increase in cases", she said.