Bad News From Bantul, Positive COVID-19 In This Region Reaches 15,233 People

Illustration. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - There have been 160 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region in the past day, bringing the total cases as of Friday to 15,233.

Quoting Antara, Sunday, June 11, the Bantul COVID-19 Task Force in an official statement said that the additional new cases came from Banguntapan District with 29 people, followed by Pandak 18 people, and Imogiri also 18 people, then Poor 17 people.

Furthermore, from Bantul, Piyungan, and Sewon each 14 people, from Pleret 11 people, Jetis six people, Srandakan five people, Kretek four, and Bambanglipuro also four people, the rest from Sanden three people, and Pajangan, Dlingo, and Sedayu one person each.

However, during that period there were 73 recovered COVID-19 patients, 19 from Piyungan District, 18 from Banguntapan and 14 from Sewon, six from Jetis, and four from Bambanglipuro, and three from Bantul.

The remaining two were from Kretek, two from Imogiri, and one each from Sanden, Pundong, Pajangan, Dlingo, and Sedayu. Thus, the total number of cases recovered from exposure to COVID-19 in Bantul amounted to 13,713 people.

For COVID-19 patients who died there were no new cases added today, so the number remains 388 deaths.

With the addition of new cases and patients recovering, the data on COVID-19 patients from Bantul who are still undergoing isolation and treatment by doctors at several referral hospitals as of Friday amounted to 1,132 people.

The Daily Chair of the Bantul COVID-19 Task Force, Joko Purnomo, said that the current handling of the COVID-19 pandemic has challenges because people are getting bored.

Therefore, he emphasized the task force to go down to provide education and protection to the public.

"I need data on which areas are red zones, where people are starting to ignore them, for us to step down, provide education so that the burden of handling COVID-19 can be shared. Public education is important, even though it has been done, we will repeat it again so that people understand more care," he said.

He also invited the community to jointly stop the spread of COVID-19 by implementing clean and healthy living behavior (PHBS), and 5M, namely wearing masks, washing hands, maintaining distance, avoiding crowds, and reducing mobility.