JAKARTA - The Task Force for Handling COVID-19 in the City of Tanjungpinang, Riau Islands, has recorded that six COVID-19 patients have died since April 1, 2021 until now.
"The death rate was quite high this month during the COVID-19 pandemic. Today a Tanjungunggat resident has died from COVID-19," said Head of the Tanjungpinang COVID-19 Handling Task Force Teguh Ahmad Syafari, in Tanjungpinang, as reported by Antara, Friday, April 16. .
Teguh, who is also the Regional Secretary of Tanjungpinang, explained that the total number of COVID-19 patients who died during the pandemic was 36 people.
Meanwhile, the number of active COVID-19 cases based on data on April 15, 2021 is 214 people, consisting of 32 people being treated in hospitals, 50 people undergoing isolation at the Bintan Education Quality Assurance Institute and 132 people in independent isolation.
"Three of the 32 people being treated in the hospital are in critical condition. The three patients consist of two adults and one child aged one year," he said.
He explained that the child contracted COVID-19 from his family members. Meanwhile his family contracted it from other people who were in the Housing Cluster on Jalan Kuantan.
Other clusters are quite a lot, namely BTN with 50 people, ULP 35 people and 23 TKI.
Teguh appealed to residents infected with COVID-19, but without symptoms to consistently carry out independent isolation until they recover. He is worried that some of them are still out of the house for various purposes so that it has the potential to spread the virus.
"Residents undergoing independent isolation should be in the room, and have activities in the room to prevent transmission of COVID-19," he said. *
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