COVID-19 Update As Of March 30: 556 New Cases, Active Cases Increase To 5,012

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 Task Force for Handling COVID-19 released the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 as of today. A total of 17,442 specimens were examined today. As a result, there were 556 new positive cases of COVID-19.

"The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 6,746,009 people and active cases have increased by 151 to 5,012 cases," said COVID-19 Task Force data, Thursday, March 30.

Today's recovered cases increased by 401 people, bringing the total to 6,579,985 recovered people. Then, the positive confirmed cases who died increased by 4 cases and a total of 161,012 people.

The province with the newest cases is DKI Jakarta with 240 cases and a total of 1,546,393 cases. Followed by West Java which has 123 new cases with a total of 1,238,729 cases. East Java has 52 new cases and a total of 638,992 cases. Banten has 49 new cases and a total of 367,359 cases.

The province with the most recovered cases today belongs to DKI Jakarta with an additional 268 recovered cases. Followed by East Java with an additional 47 recovered cases, West Java with an additional 26 recovered cases, and Banten with an additional 18 recovered cases.

In addition, the number of specimens that had been examined using RT-PCR, TCM, and antigen reached 115,923,509.

"Positive results per number of people examined or the positivity rate of people this week is 3 percent," he wrote.

The number of people suspected of contracting COVID-19 or who are currently categorized as suspected cases was recorded at 1,213 people. Currently, 34 provinces have had cases of COVID-19.

Furthermore, currently there are 203,823,194 people who have received the first dose of COVID-19 vaccination and 174,854,053 the second dose of vaccination. Then, the third dose of vaccination was 68,630,869 and the fourth dose was 3,079,835. Meanwhile, the target for vaccination in Indonesia is 234,666,020 people.