Sad News From West Papua, Cases Of Death Due To COVID-19 Increased By 4 People

Spokesman for the West Papua COVID-19 Task Force, doctor Arnold Tiniap (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The number of people who died from COVID-19 in West Papua Province, Saturday, August 21, increased by 4 people. According to the spokesman for the West Papua COVID-19 task force, doctor Arnold Tiniap, 3 people came from Teluk Bintuni Regency and 1 person from Manokwari.

"Today, another 4 positive COVID-19 patients died, bringing the total number of deaths from COVID-19 in this province to 332 people or 1.5 percent of the 21,827 total positive cases," said Arnold Tiniap, quoted by Antara, Sunday, August 22.

Arnold Tiniap said that from an epidemiological analysis based on the results of security during the pandemic in this province, cases of death due to COVID-19 were caused by three factors.

This epidemiologist explained that the first factor was due to the presence of comorbidities or comorbidities that were exacerbated by exposure to the coronavirus, the second factor had not been vaccinated, and the third factor was delayed treatment.

"About 95 percent of cases died from COVID-19 in this province because the vaccine had not been injected, so there was no antibody response to fight the virus. While the other 5 percent were due to comorbid factors and delayed treatment," he said.

Furthermore, Arnold Tiniap reported that the number of positive cases in this province began to decline from hundreds to dozens, while recovering patients continued to increase to hundreds in a day.

"Today, West Papua's positive cases have only increased by 22 people, while recovering patients have increased by 379 people," said Arnold Tiniap.

He then appealed to the public to immediately vaccinate against COVID-19 at the nearest health care facility, or visit places where mass vaccination services are provided, and remain obedient to health protocols.

"We continue to invite the public, because COVID-19 vaccination is important to maintain internal defenses (antibodies) while health protocols are implemented to prevent transmission from outside (contacts) from people around," he said.