COVID-19 Cases Crawling Up, Mayor Of Palangka Raya Reminds If Fever Don't Congregate

KALTENG - Cases of the spread of COVID-19 in Palangka Raya City have added three people so that the number of active patients in the local city is 11 cases.

"On Sunday (12 June) there were three additional positive COVID-19 residents, so there are currently 11 active cases," said Palangka Raya Mayor Fairid Naparin in Palangka Raya, Central Kalimantan Province (Kalteng), Monday 13 June.

The number of active cases is at 0.06 percent of the total accumulated corona patients in the "City of Beauty" which reached 17,770 people.

"Of all the positive cases in Palangka Raya, the recovery rate reached 96.84 percent or 17,209 people," he said.

Based on data from the City COVID-19 Handling Task Force on June 12 yesterday, 550 patients were declared dead after being exposed to the virus.

Firid also asked local residents to continue to anticipate the spread of COVID-19.

Such as implementing a clean and healthy lifestyle, diligently exercising, he said, eating and drinking nutritious foods and taking vitamins.

"If you feel unwell, such as fever or other symptoms, you should not gather together. If you are forced to continue to use a mask as an effort to anticipate the spread of COVID-19," he said.

In order to break the chain of the spread of COVID-19, the Palangka Raya City Government, through the task force team, continues to make various efforts, starting from socialization, early detection and handling of cases.

What's more, he continued, some cases were new transmissions and others were close contact or exposure from close family members.

The government and various related parties are also intensifying vaccinations as an effort to increase the body's resistance to exposure to the virus.