Increases, The Recovery Rate Of COVID-19 Patients In Batam Is 88 Percent

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JAKARTA - The Task Force for Handling COVID-19 Batam City, Riau Islands, recorded an additional 261 residents who recovered from COVID-19. So that in total there are 21,387 residents who have been declared cured since the pandemic.

"The Batam City COVID-19 Task Force noted that with the addition of residents who recovered, the recovery rate also increased to 88.769 percent," said Batam City Communications and Informatics Agency Head Azril Apriansyah, who revealed the data to reporters in Batam, reported by Antara, Thursday.

Other task force data recorded an additional 139 people who were exposed to COVID-19 for a total of 24,093 people, and an additional six people died, bringing the total to 655 people.

"Currently, there are 2,051 people being treated," said the Batam COVID-19 Task Force report.

Of the 2,051 residents who are still active with COVID-19, 1,490 of them are undergoing self-isolation, 96 people are in hajj dormitories, and others are being treated at 16 referral hospitals.

"The death rate is 2.719 percent, the cure rate is 88.769 percent, the active case rate is 8.513 percent," said the report. with 25 people still being treated.

One other buffer sub-district is Galang with 13 people still being treated or the orange zone and the other is the yellow zone, namely Bulang with six people being treated.

While on the main island, all sub-districts are red zones.