In A Day, Positive Cases Of COVID-19 In Batam 110 People

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BATAM - The Batam City COVID-19 Task Force, Riau Islands, recorded 110 people who were confirmed positive for COVID-19 Wednesday, February 16 and this is the highest relative during the pandemic.

"Today the number of confirmed cases is 110, the cumulative is 26,777 cases," said the Task Force's spokesperson for the COVID-19, Azril Apriansyah in Batam, as reported by Antara.

The task force also recorded an additional 44 people completing isolation, bringing a total of 25,322 people who recovered, and no additional deaths, so a cumulative 844 people have died since the start of the pandemic until now.

With this, the number of active COVID-19 cases is 611 people.

Those who are still active with COVID-19, as many as 240 people are being treated at the Galang Island Hospital, 128 people are undergoing independent isolation, 118 people are in integrated isolation at the Batam Hajj Dormitory, and others are being treated at 14 hospitals across the city.

"The cure rate is 94.566 percent, the death rate is 3.152 percent, and active cases are 2.282 percent," said the Task Force.

It is also noted that COVID-19 has spread to the buffer islands of Batam City. Of the three buffer sub-districts, two of them are the COVID-19 yellow zone, namely Behindpadang and Galang with one person each still active with COVID-19.

Meanwhile, the other buffer sub-district, Bulang, is now a COVID-19 green zone.

On the main island, the entire COVID-19 red zone.

In the Task Force report, it was also stated that the results of the assessment of the COVID-19 situation as of February 14, 2022 were level 2.

Community transmission received a level 2 assessment with 46.54 confirmed cases per 100 thousand inhabitants per week, hospitalization level 1 with 4.67 per 100 thousand inhabitants per week, and level 1 deaths with 0.06 per 100 thousand inhabitants per week.

Then the response capacity is considered adequate. In terms of testing, the positivity rate is 3.12 percent per week, tracking is also considered adequate with a ratio of close contacts examined 19.37 per confirmed case per week, and adequate treatment with 17.62 percent BOR per week.

While the vaccination was considered adequate, 114.49 percent of the target population received the first dose of vaccine.