COVID-19 Goes Crazy, Two Districts In Batang Enter The Red Zone

Data on the number of COVID-19 patients released by the Batang Regency Health Office, Central Java on Sunday (13/2/2022). (PHOTO ANTARA/HO-Humas Batang Regency Government)

BATANG - The Batang Regency Government, Central Java, released data that the distribution of COVID-19 patients in the local area had soared while establishing that two of the 15 sub-districts were now in red zone status.

Batang Regent, Wihaji, said that with the surge in COVID-19 cases, the district government had prepared two referral hospitals, namely the Kalisari Batang Hospital and the Qolbu Insan Mandiri Hospital (QIM) to anticipate a spike in the transmission of COVID-19 cases.

"Two sub-districts are in the red zone, namely Batang District and Gringsing District. These two areas contributed the most COVID-19 patients, namely in Batang District with 48 people and Gringsing with 25 people", he said in Batang, as reported by Antara on Monday, February 14.

The sub-districts with orange zone status are Wonotunggal as many as 4 people, Banyuputih (3), Subah (11), Tulis (13), Kandeman (9), and Warungasem (9) while the sub-districts with yellow status include Bandar (3), Reban ( 4), Bawang (2), Tersono (5), and Limpung (6).

As for the two sub-districts with green zone status, said Wihaji, they are Blado and Pecalungan.

Based on data from the Batang Health Office), as of Sunday, February 13, the number of COVID-19 patients undergoing self-isolation was 156 people and 11 people were hospitalized.

The Head of the Care Division at the Kalisari Hospital, Batang Samuri Regency, said that currently, his party is treating 9 COVID-19 patients.

"However, we cannot confirm whether as many as 9 patients were exposed to the new variant of Omicron COVID-19 or not", he said.

According to him, currently, Batang Hospital has prepared 22 beds for COVID-19 isolation patients and if there is a spike it will be added to 115 units gradually.

"So we will adjust the addition of beds according to needs", said Samuri.