Trend Of COVID-19 Rising, Palembang Record Addition Of 10 Cases Per Day

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SOUTH SUMATERA - The Palembang City Health Office, South Sumatra reported that there were additional active cases of COVID-19 with an average number of 5-10 new cases per day. On July 10, there were a total of 58 cases, said COVID-19 Spokesperson for the Palembang Health Service, Yudhi Setiawan, in Palembang, Monday. However, he continued, the trend of adding COVID-19 cases was quite low when compared to February 2022 which was relatively high with an average number of 100-150 cases per day. but the increase is not high when compared to the same period in February," he said, when confirmed via text message in Palembang Meanwhile, the Mayor of Palembang Harnojoyo appealed to the residents of this city to return to wearing masks when doing activities indoors and outdoors as an effort to mitigate the transmission of COVID-19. lately it has also increased nationally. "Of course we will immediately follow up on the provisions from the center, in its implementation, one of them is wearing masks again, as an effort to mitigate COVID-19," he said as quoted by Antara.

On the other hand, he assessed, the use of masks is not limited to preventing the transmission of COVID-19 alone, but is very important to maintain a healthy body from other infectious diseases.

Because based on a study of health workers compiled by the Palembang City Government, about 86 percent of infectious diseases enter the body through the respiratory system.

"So from there, we strongly encourage residents to return to wearing masks," he added. The Palembang City Government is also committed to continuing to optimize the vaccination campaign, especially the third dose as an effort to prevent the transmission of COVID-19, which is targeted to reach 100 percent in the next few months, he said. Harnojoyo.

Meanwhile, based on data from the Palembang City Health Service, recorded on Sunday (10/7), there were 264,869 Palembang City residents who had completed the third dose of COVID-19 vaccination or reached 24.32 percent of the target number of 1,412,064 people. Then for the first dose of vaccination 1,200,486 or 85.02 percent and the second dose of 1,020,372 or 82.26 percent.