COVID-19 Update As Of March 5th: New Cases 30,156

ILLUSTRA TION BY VOI

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) released the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 as of today. Of the 400,150 specimens examined, the results were 30,156 new positive cases of COVID-19.

"The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 5,723,858 and active cases have fallen by 16,835 to 500,418 cases," said data from the Ministry of Health, Sabut, March 5.

Cases recovered on the day increased by 46,669 people, bringing the total to 5,073,522 people recovered. Then, positive confirmed cases who died increased by 322 cases and totaled 149,918 people.

The province with the most new cases was in West Java with 6,701 cases and a total of 1,036,540 cases. Followed by East Java with 3,654 cases and a total of 551,204.

Furthermore, DKI Jakarta recorded 3509 new cases and a total of 1,194,124 cases and DI Yogyakarta recorded 2,179 new cases and a total of 202,859 cases.

The highest recovered cases were in West Java with a total of 16,111 cases, followed by DKI Jakarta 5,293 cases, East Java 4470 cases, Banten 3,235 cases, and East Kalimantan 2,273 cases.

In addition, the number of specimens that have been examined using RT-PCR, TCM, and antigens reached 86,750,0007.

"Positive results per number of people examined or the positivity rate of people this week is 16.27 percent," he wrote.

The number of people suspected of contracting COVID-19 or who are currently categorized as suspected cases, was recorded at 25,385 people. Currently, 34 provinces have had cases of COVID-19.

So far, 191,835,428 people have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination and 147,280,509 have received the second dose of vaccination.

Meanwhile, the number of recipients of the third dose of vaccination currently reaches 11,942,963 people with the total target recipients of vaccination nationally reaching 208,265,720.