Update COVID-19 as of January 11: New Cases 402, Cured Add 509

Illustration of health workers or health workers on duty at the Wisma Atlet Kemayoran Hospital in Jakarta when cases skyrocketed at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Antara)

JAKARTA - The COVID-19 Handling Task Force released the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 today. A total of 34,054 specimens were examined today. As a result, there were 402 new positive cases of COVID-19.

"The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 6,724,683 people and active cases have fallen by 115 to 7,805 cases", it was quoted as saying from the COVID-19 Task Force data, Wednesday, January 11.

Today's recovered cases increased by 509 people, bringing a total of 6,556,173 recovered people. Then, positive confirmed cases who died increased by 8 cases and a total of 160,705 people.

The province with the newest cases is DKI Jakarta with 146 cases and a total of 1,537,730 cases. Followed by West Java which has 89 new cases with a total of 1,233,655 cases. Banten has 43 new cases and a total of 365,460 cases. East Java has 33 new cases and a total of 365,460 cases.

The province with the most recovered cases today belongs to West Java with an additional 152 recovered cases. Followed by DKI Jakarta with an additional 90 recovered cases, Central Java with an additional 77 recovered cases, and East Java with an additional 50 recovered cases.

In addition, the number of specimens that have been examined using RT-PCR, TCM, and antigen has reached 114,281,602.

"The positive results per number of people examined or the positivity rate of people this week is 1.91 percent", it wrote.

The number of people suspected of having contracted COVID-19 or who are currently categorized as suspected cases is recorded at 2,042 people. Currently, 34 provinces have had COVID-19 cases.

Furthermore, currently, 204,099,089 people have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination and 174,884,685 of the second dose of vaccination. Then, the third dose of vaccination was 68,854,916 and the fourth dose was 1,201,331. Meanwhile, the target for vaccination in Indonesia is 234,666,020 people.