East Java Records Highest COVID-19 Death Case Today

ILLUSTRA TION / VOI

JAKARTA - Data from the Task Force for Handling COVID-19 shows the death toll from COVID-19 has reached 1,487 people. East Java recorded the highest addition of 371 people.

The increase in the death toll was also accompanied by an additional 28,228 new cases and 40,374 patients who were declared cured, according to data from the COVID-19 Task Force, quoted by Antara, Monday, July 26.

With this addition, Indonesia has recorded a total of 3,194,733 cases of COVID-19 with 2,549,692 of whom have recovered and 84,766 people have died since the first patient was confirmed in the country in March 2020.

Active cases or patients undergoing treatment and self-isolation due to COVID-19 decreased by 13,633 people compared to yesterday, so that currently there are 560,275 active cases. 287,987 people fall into the suspect category.

The five provinces that recorded the most additional cases today are West Java with 4,368 new cases, Central Java with 4,021 new cases, East Java with 3,157 new cases, DI Yogyakarta with 2,667 new cases, and DKI Jakarta with 2,662 new cases.

Meanwhile, the areas with the highest new death cases were East Java with 371 people, Central Java 270 people, West Java 226 people, DKI Jakarta 160 people, and DI Yogyakarta 77 people.

DKI Jakarta is the province with the most total cases and recovered patients with 794,935 cases and 731,476 recovered patients. Meanwhile, East Java became the province with the largest accumulation of deaths at 18,529 people.

The addition of the new case was confirmed after the testing of 160,589 specimens from 121,266 people in a network of hundreds of laboratories throughout Indonesia. A total of 24,975,057 specimens have been tested since last year, 1708,799 people.

The national average positivity rate for daily specimens is 29.95 percent while the daily positivity rate is 23.28 percent.