The provinces that recorded the most cases on Wednesday were Jakarta, with 1,134 cases, followed by West Java, with 416 cases; Banten, with 294 cases; East Java, with 113 cases, and Bali, with 56 cases, data received from the task force here on Wednesday showed.
Meanwhile, 1,282 patients recovered from the virus on Wednesday, taking the total number of recoveries to 5,913,307, the data showed.
The country also recorded three new COVID-19 deaths, which took the overall death toll to 156,731.
Meanwhile, the number of active cases or patients undergoing treatment or isolation stood at 16,174.
At least 4,937 people were listed in the suspected category on Wednesday based on tests conducted on 80,020 specimens in laboratories across the country.
The daily specimen positivity rate was recorded at 4.63 percent, while the daily person positivity rate was pegged at 3.93 percent.
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Earlier, speaking at the Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT), Tanjung Priok, North Jakarta, on Sunday, Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin had urged people to get the vaccine without delay to strengthen immunity against COVID-19.
The Ministry of Health and the University of Indonesia are conducting the third serosurvey from June to July 2022 to measure the level of antibodies in vaccine recipients.
The survey is required to provide scientific, fact-based inputs to President Joko Widodo so he can decide on the government's policy direction.
The minister informed that the first serosurvey had shown that around 88 percent of Indonesians had developed antibodies against COVID-19, while the second serosurvey found that 99.2 percent of citizens had antibodies against the virus.
According to Sadikin, the serosurvey will be carried out regularly to monitor coronavirus transmission in the community.
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Translator: Prisca Triferna, Raka Adji
Editor: Suharto
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