COVID-19 Update As Of March 19: 5,656 New Cases, Accumulated 1,455,788 Cases

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) releases the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 today. A total of 69,700 specimens were examined today. As a result, there were 5,656 new positive cases of COVID-19.

"The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia reached 1,455,788 people and 131,616 active cases," data quoted from the Ministry of Health, Saturday, March 20.

Cases recovered today increased by 5,760 cases, so that a total of 1,284,725 people recovered. Then, the positive confirmed cases who died increased by 108 people and the total was 39,447 people.

The province with the most new cases was in DKI Jakarta with 1,937 cases and a total of 368,944 cases. Followed by West Java, which has 822 new cases with a total of 239,434 cases. East Java has 289 new cases and a total of 136,397 cases. Then, DI Yogyakarta has 242 new cases and a total of 31,357 cases.

The province with the most cases recovered today belongs to West Java with an increase of 1,712 recovered cases. Followed by DKI Jakarta with an increase of 1,190 recovered cases, East Kalimantan with an additional 345 recovered cases, and Banten with an additional 308 recovered cases.

There is one province that reported no new cases as of today. The province that reported zero new cases was West Sulawesi.

In addition, the number of specimens that had been examined using RT-PCR, TCM, and antigen reached 12,014,357.

"Positive results per number of specimens examined or this week's positivity rate was 19.27 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 58,236 people. Currently, 510 districts / cities from 34 provinces have COVID-19 cases.

Furthermore, currently there are 5,124,948 people who have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination and 2,221,200 vaccines for the second dose. Meanwhile, the total vaccination targets reached 40,349,051 people.