Sad News From Southeast Sulawesi, 12 People Died In A Day Due To COVID-19

Illustration - Medical officers bury the bodies of positive COVID-19 patients in Kendari. ANTARA/HO-South Sulawesi COVID-19 Handling Task Force

JAKARTA - The Southeast Sulawesi COVID-19 Task Force (Sultra) recorded that residents in the province died from being infected with SARS-CoV-2 to 324 people after Monday added 12 cases.

Spokesperson for the Southeast Sulawesi COVID-19 Task Force La Ode Rabiul Awal in Kendari, Monday, said the additional 12 cases of death due to COVID-19 in the province were spread across five regencies/cities.

"Today, 12 more people died from COVID-19, in five regions," he said, quoted by Antara, Monday, July 25.

The distribution of death cases in Southeast Sulawesi today, 59-year-old male from Baubau City; 61 year old woman, 76 year old woman from North Buton Regency; men aged 71, 79, and 60 and women aged 56, 47, 47 from Kolaka Regency; 60 year old male from Konawe Regency; 41-year-old male and 50-year-old female from East Kolaka Regency.

The trend of cases of death due to COVID-19 in Southeast Sulawesi is increasing, where for 26 days starting from July 1-26 2021, the local Task Force recorded an increase in the number of deaths by 88 people.

Of all 17 regencies/cities in Southeast Sulawesi, all regions have cases of death due to corona infection.

The distribution of COVID-19 patients who died in Southeast Sulawesi included 18 people in Buton Regency, 20 Muna, 34 Konawe, 22 Kolaka, 27 South Konawe, 12 Bombana, Seven Wakatobi, 19 North Kolaka, 13 North Buton, two North Konawe, 15 East Kolaka, and Konawe Islands one person.

Furthermore, there are six people from West Muna Regency, six people from Central Buton, six people from South Buton, 82 people from Kendari City and 34 people from Baubau City.

While positive cases of COVID-19 were recorded at 15,374 people after today's increase of 114 cases, then cases recovered to 12,185 after today's increase of 126 people.

Rabiul reminded the public not to be careless in implementing the 5M health protocol, namely wearing masks, maintaining distance, diligently washing hands, avoiding crowds and reducing motility in order to suppress the increasing number of cases.

"We must not be careless to discipline health protocols when carrying out our daily activities. Including let's join the vaccine so that we can suppress and break the chain of spread of COVID-19 in our area," he said.