COVID-19 Update As Of March 5: 165 New Cases, 576 Recovered

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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 13,492 specimens were examined today. As a result, there were 165 new positive cases of COVID-19. "The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 6,736,159 people and active cases have dropped to 3,044 cases," said COVID-19 Task Force data, Sunday, March 5. Today's recovered cases increased by 576 people, bringing the total to 6,573,185 recovered people. Then, positive confirmed cases who died increased by 2 cases and a total of 160,930 people. The province with the newest cases is DKI Jakarta with 78 cases and a total of 1,542,453 cases. Followed by West Java which has 39 new cases with a total of 1,236,626 cases. Banten has 14 new cases and a total of 366,578 cases. East Java has 12 new cases and a total of 638,214 cases. The province with the most recovered cases today belongs to West Java with an additional 378 recovered cases. Followed by DKI Jakarta with an additional 93 recovered cases, Banten with an additional 18 recovered cases, and East Java with an additional 18 recovered cases. In addition, the number of specimens that had been examined using RT-PCR, TCM, and antigen reached 115,491,838. "Positive results per number of people examined or this week's positivity rate of 1.40 percent", he wrote. The number of people suspected of contracting COVID-19 or who are currently categorized as suspected cases, was recorded at 735 people. Currently, 34 provinces have had cases of COVID-19. Furthermore, currently there are 203,811,622 people who have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination and 174,839,540 the second dose of vaccination. Then, the third dose of vaccination was 70,025,222 and the fourth dose was 2,766,928. Meanwhile, the target for vaccination in Indonesia is 234,666,020 people.