COVID-19 Update As Of June 17: 19,757 Specimens Examined, 1,031 New Cases Increase

Government spokesman for the handling of COVID-19, Achmad Yurianto (Photo: Doc. Task Force)

JAKARTA - Spokesperson for COVID-19 Handling Achmad Yurianto said there were 19,757 specimens examined as of Wednesday, June 17. As a result, 1,031 people tested positive for COVID-19.

"Today there are 1,031 positive confirmed cases of COVID-19. So that we have accumulated 41,431 cases," said Yurianto in a press conference broadcast on the BNPB YouTube account, Wednesday, June 17.

He explained that there were 5 provinces that still recorded high numbers of additional cases. The first province is East Java. Yurianto said that in the province there were 225 new cases added and the number of recovered patients was only 56 people.

Then, DKI Jakarta contributed 127 new cases and the number of recovered ones reached 116 people. Next, Central Java reported an additional 115 new cases and 65 people were declared cured.

"South Kalimantan has added 86 cases and 80 people have been declared cured and South Sulawesi recorded an additional 84 new cases and 16 recovered," he explained.

Furthermore, he explained that there were 17 provinces that reported additional cases of COVID-19 under 10 cases, "And there are four provinces that did not report cases at all," he said.

Meanwhile, for recovered cases, currently the total has reached 540 patients, bringing the total to 16,243 people. Meanwhile, for those who died, the total reached 45 people and the total accumulation reached 2,276 people.

Yurianto explained that the high increase in cases was due to tracing and close contact tracing of positive cases of COVID-19 who were undergoing treatment at the hospital.

This tracking, he said, continues to be carried out aggressively and continues with testing with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method and rapid molecular test (TCM).

"This shows that we have started and carried out massive testing in a few weeks, based on aggressive tracing. This is important, because we can identify positive cases," he concluded.