COVID-19 Update As Of February 27: New Cases 152, Healing Increases 270

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JAKARTA - The COVID-19 Handling Task Force released the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 as of today. A total of 17,910 specimens were examined today. As a result, there were 152 new positive cases of COVID-19. "The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 6,735,780 people and active cases have dropped by 121 to 3,412 cases," said COVID-19 Task Force data, Monday, February 27. Today's recovered cases increased by 270 people, bringing the total to 6,571,457 recovered people. Then, the positive confirmed cases who died increased by 3 cases and the total was 160,911 people. The province with the newest cases is DKI Jakarta with 49 cases and a total of 1,541,879 cases. Followed by West Java which has 44 new cases with a total of 1,236,285 cases. East Java has 14 new cases and a total of 638,077 cases. Banten has 13 new cases and a total of 366,449 cases. The province with the most recovered cases today belongs to West Java with an additional 120 recovered cases. Followed by DKI Jakarta with an additional 76 recovered cases, East Java with an additional 19 recovered cases, and Banten with an additional 24 recovered cases. In addition, the number of specimens that had been examined using RT-PCR, TCM, and antigen reached 115,366,964. "Positive results per number of people examined or this week's positivity rate of 1.24 percent", he wrote. The number of people suspected of contracting COVID-19 or who are currently categorized as suspected cases was recorded at 709 people. Currently, 34 provinces have had cases of COVID-19. Furthermore, currently there are 203,808,384 people who have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination and 174,832,241 the second dose of vaccination. Then, the third dose of vaccination was 69,982,677 and the fourth dose was 2,676,534. Meanwhile, the target for vaccination in Indonesia is 234,666,020 people.