South Kalimantan Records The Highest Increase In COVID-19 Cases This Week

Wiku Adisasmito, Spokesperson for the Task Force for Handling COVID-19

JAKARTA - Spokesman for the Task Force for Handling COVID-19, Wiku Adisasmito, said that the province of South Kalimantan experienced the highest increase in COVID-19 cases this week.

"In the recording of the Task Force data as of March 28, South Kalimantan has increased by 221 cases from last week to this week", Wiku said in the Presidential Secretariat Youtube broadcast, Tuesday, March 30.

Furthermore, provinces with the highest weekly increase in cases were South Sumatra with 173 cases, Riau up by 116 cases, Riau Islands up by 96 cases, and West Sumatra up by 72 cases.

"At the national level, there was an 11.9 percent decrease in cases this week compared to the previous week", said Wiku.

In addition, the trend of increasing mortality also decreased by 34.1 percent compared to the previous week.

There were also 5 provinces with the highest increase in mortality, namely West Java, up 18 cases, South Sumatra up 14 cases, Aceh up 7 cases, Riau up 6 cases, and South Kalimantan up 5 cases.

Meanwhile, from the aspect of recovery this week decreased by 19.2 percent. The five provinces with the highest contribution to recovery were South Sumatra, which increased by 379 cases, Central Java increased by 268 cases, DIY increased by 254 cases, East Kalimantan increased by 230 cases, and Central Sulawesi increased by 127 cases.

"This can happen because positive cases have decreased", said Wiku.

According to him, currently the trend of the development of coronavirus cases in Indonesia has begun to decline since the beginning of February 2021. At the same time, currently, the condition of COVID-19 globally is experiencing an increase in positive cases and deaths in a number of countries.

"In fact, in some countries, Indonesia has had to carry out a lockdown again. Indonesia has been able to maintain the decline in positive cases and deaths since the beginning of February this year", said Wiku.

This condition, he continued, indicates the better collaboration between the government and the community in reducing the COVID-19 case.