Active Cases Of COVID-19 In Babylon Soar To 17 People, Only South Bangka And East Belitung Are Nil

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JAKARTA - The Bangka Belitung Islands COVID-19 Handling Task Force stated that one more active COVID-19 patient has been added. The total number of people who have confirmed the corona virus and are still undergoing isolation is 17 patients.

"Today, the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has increased by one in Belitung," said Secretary of the Babel Islands Province COVID-19 Handling Task Force Micron Antariksa in Pangkalpinang, Tuesday, July 12, quoted from Antara.

All of them who are still undergoing self-isolation are scattered in Bangka 7, Pangkalpinang 4, Belitung 3, West Bangka 2 and Central Bangka Regencies 1 patient.

"Currently, only South Bangka and East Belitung still have zero cases of COVID-19, while five other regencies/cities have again experienced an increase in cases," he said.

Meanwhile, he said, the patient recovered and died from COVID-19 was zero, while there were 35 probable cases and 40 probable deaths spread across districts/cities in Babylon.

"This COVID-19 case is starting to increase ahead of this year's Eid al-Adha, due to increased community activities to welcome the qurbani Eid," he said.

The head of the East Belitung COVID-19 Task Force, Ikhwan Fahrozi, said the local government continues to intensify vaccinations to maintain East Belitung's zero COVID-19 cases.

"Vaccination activities have been carried out on a massive scale to touch people in remote villages, in order to increase the community's immunity from this corona virus," he said.