Sad News From Southeast Sulawesi: Positive COVID-19 Cases There Increases To 12.568

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JAKARTA - The Southeast Sulawesi COVID-19 Task Force Team (Sultra) recorded that the total number of residents in the province who were positively infected with COVID-19 had reached 12.568 after Saturday, July 10, an increase of 116 people.

A spokesperson for the Southeast Sulawesi COVID-19 Task Force, La Ode Rabiul Awal in Kendari, said the development of COVID-19 cases in the province in recent times the trend of positive cases increasing than patients recovering.

"There are 116 new positive cases in Southeast Sulawesi, spread across 11 regencies/cities", he said, quoted from Antara, Sunday, July 11.

The details of the most positive COVID-19 cases in Kolaka Regency; followed by Kendari City 34; Muna District 10, Konawe Islands Seven; West Muna six; each four East Kolaka, North Buton, South Konawe; three each in Konawe, Buton and Baubau City.

In addition to new positive cases, the local COVID-19 Task Force also noted that there were five additional cases of death due to infection with the virus, namely a 56-year-old male, a 39-year-old female, and a 62-year-old female from Muna Regency; a 72-year-old woman from North Buton; and a man from South Konawe.

The local COVID-19 task force noted that in the last eight days, there were 18 additional deaths, where on July 3, 2021, there were two additional deaths; July 4 two cases, July 5 two cases, July 6 three cases, July 7 two cases, July 8 one case, July 9 one case and today July 10, five more cases died.

"So to this day there are 256 cases of death due to COVID-19 in Southeast Sulawesi", he said.

Meanwhile, there were 21 patients recovered from COVID-19 infection in the area, with details of Bombana Regency six, South Buton five, Konawe four, Kolaka three, and Buton Regency one.

"So that the accumulation of recovered COVID-19 patients in Southeast Sulawesi to date has reached 10.461 people. And patients undergoing treatment or isolation are in the recovery period to 1.851 people", he explained.

Rabiul invites all parties to continue to be disciplined in implementing health protocols starting from wearing masks, maintaining distance, diligently washing hands, avoiding crowds, and reducing mobility, especially now that COVID-19 cases are increasing.

In addition to reminding the discipline to apply health protocols in carrying out daily productive activities, Wayonk also invites the entire community to take part in the COVID-19 vaccination, in order to increase the body's immunity from the coronavirus.

"Health protocols and vaccinations are currently important in reducing our number of cases and breaking the chain of transmission of COVID-19, which is currently starting to increase", added Doctor Wayonk.