JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) releases the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 today. A total of 65,431 specimens were examined today. As a result, there were 9,775 new positive cases of COVID-19.
"The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 1,298,608 people and as many as 158,604 active cases," the Ministry of Health was quoted as saying, Tuesday, February 23.
Today's cases have increased to 7,996 cases, so that a total of 1,104,990 people recovered. Then, the positive confirmed cases who died increased by 323 people and a total of 35,014 people.
The province with the most new cases was in West Java with 4,334 cases and a total of 202,515 cases. Followed by Central Java, which has 827 new cases with a total of 149,336 cases. DKI Jakarta has 782 new cases and a total of 331,876 cases. Then, East Java has 546 new cases and a total of 127,013 cases.
The province with the most cases recovered today belongs to West Java with an additional 2,049 cases of recovery. Followed by DKI Jakarta with an increase of 1,814 recovered cases, Central Java with an increase of 649 recovered cases, and East Java with an additional 511 recovered cases.
No province reported having no new cases as of today. The province that reported the fewest new cases was Southeast Sulawesi with 7 cases.
In addition, the number of specimens examined reached 10,501,877. In detail, 10,351,397 specimens were examined using real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and 150,480 using molecular rapid tests (TCM).
"The cumulative positive result per number of people examined or a positivity rate of 18.6 percent," he wrote.
For the number of people suspected of having contracted COVID-19 or who are currently categorized as suspected cases, it was recorded at 78,616 people. Currently, 510 districts / cities from 34 provinces have cases of COVID-19.
Furthermore, currently there are 1,269,905 people who have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination and 789,966 vaccines for the second dose. Meanwhile, the total vaccination targets reached 181,554,465 people.
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