8 Out Of 9 Sub-districts On The Main Island Of Batam City Are In The COVID Red Zone, Only Batuampar Has Orange Status

BATAM - Cases of confirmed COVID-19 residents in Batam City, Riau Islands continue to increase. It was recorded that as of Thursday, February 10, eight of the nine sub-districts on the main island were in the red zone.

A spokesperson for the Batam COVID-19 Task Force, Azril Apriansyah, said that only one sub-district on the main island was still in the orange zone, namely Batuampar, with 15 people positively exposed to COVID.

The other eight sub-districts are in the red zone, namely Nongsa, Batam Kota, Sei Beduk, Sagulung, Batuaji, Sekupang, Lubuk Baja, and Bengkong in the red zone, with more than 20 positive residents for COVID-19. In Batam City, there were even 95 people who were still actively exposed to the Corona Virus.

In the buffer zone, one sub-district is already in the yellow zone, namely Bulang with one active case of COVID-19. Two sub-districts on the other buffer islands are still green zones, namely Behindpadang and Galang.

On this day alone, there were an additional 62 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19. Only one person is declared to have completed the isolation period.

With this, a total of 26,250 people have been confirmed positive for COVID-19, 25,078 of whom have completed isolation, 842 have died, and 330 are still active with COVID-19.

"The cure rate is 95.535 percent, the death rate is 3.208 percent, and active cases are 1.257 percent," Azril explained in Batam as reported by Antara.

Of the 330 active cases of COVID-19, 239 of them are being treated at the Galang Island Hospital, 24 are still undergoing independent isolation, and others are being treated in 12 hospitals. Meanwhile, the results of the Batam COVID-19 situation assessment as of February 8, 2022, are level 1.

It is stated that the level 1 community transmission assessment with confirmed cases is 19.97 per 100 thousand inhabitants per week, hospitalization in hospitals is 3.98 per 100 thousand inhabitants per week, and death is 0.00 per 100 thousand inhabitants per week.

Then for testing it was considered adequate, with a positivity rate of 1.3 percent per week, tracing was also considered adequate with a ratio of close contacts examined 20.24 per confirmed case per week, and adequate treatment with 6.86 percent BOR per week.

Likewise, vaccination was considered adequate, which reached 114.19 percent of the target population receiving the first dose of vaccine.