COVID-19 Update As Of February 25: 8.493 New Cases, 8.686 Recovered

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) has released the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 today. A total of 69.544 specimens were examined today. As a result, there were 8.493 new positive cases of COVID-19.

"The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia reached 1.314.634 people and 157.705 active cases", data quoted from the Ministry of Health, Thursday, February 25.

Recovered cases today have increased by 8.686 cases so that a total of 1.121.411 people recovered. Then, the positive confirmed cases who died increased by 264 people and a total of 35.254 people.

The province with the newest cases is in West Java with 2.546 cases and a total of 207.252 cases. Followed by DKI Jakarta, which has 1.581 new cases with a total of 334.239 cases. Central Java has 820 new cases and a total of 151.418 cases. Then, East Java has 556 new cases and a total of 128.149 cases.

The province with the most cases recovered today belongs to DKI Jakarta with an increase of 2.320 recovered cases. Followed by Central Java with an increase of 1.237 recovered cases, West Java with an increase of 1.066 recovered cases, and East Kalimantan with an increase of 712 recovered cases.

No province reported having zero cases as of today. The province that reported the fewest new cases was North Maluku with 5 cases.

In addition to that, the number of specimens examined reached 10.644.435. In detail, 10.493.030 specimens were examined using real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and 151.405 using molecular rapid test (TCM).

"The cumulative positive results per number of people examined or a positivity rate of 18.5 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 77.293 people. Currently, 510 districts/cities from 34 provinces have cases of COVID-19.

Furthermore, currently, there are 1.461.920 people who have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination and 853.745 vaccines for the second dose. Meanwhile, the total vaccination targets reached 181.554.465 people.