COVID-19 Update As Of April 9: 1,468 Positive Cases Appear

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) released the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 as of today. A total of 121,806 specimens were examined with the results of 1,468 people being confirmed positive for COVID-19.

"The total accumulated positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 6,031,636 people and active cases have fallen by 2.43 to 74,130 cases," said Ministry of Health data, Saturday, April 9.

Today's recovered cases increased by 3,865 cases, bringing the total to 5,801,909 recovered people. Then, there were 41 positive confirmed cases and a total of 155,597 people.

The province with the highest new cases is DKI Jakarta with 450 cases. So that accumulatively it reached 1,243,147 cases.

Followed by West Java with 266 new cases and a total of 1,102,315 cases. Then, Banten with the addition of 153 cases per day.

Meanwhile, the province with the most recovered cases today is in West Java with the addition of 976 recovered cases.

Furthermore, DKI Jakarta with the addition of 702 recovered cases, and Banten with 644 recovered cases.

In addition, the number of specimens that have been examined using RT-PCR, TCM, and antigens so far has reached 93,069,375.

"Positive results per number of people examined or the positivity rate of people this week is 1.73 percent," he wrote.

The number of people suspected of contracting COVID-19 or currently categorized as suspected cases is 4,329 people. Currently, 34 provinces have had cases of COVID-19.

So far, 197,404,393 people have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination and 161,333,038 people have received the second dose of vaccination.

While the third dose of vaccination was 26,433,539 people. Meanwhile, the target for vaccination in Indonesia is 208,265,720 people.