According to data from the task force received here on Tuesday, the provinces that recorded the most new cases were Jakarta, with 1,594 cases, followed by West Java, with 728 cases; Banten, with 393 cases; East Java, with 279 cases; and Bali, with 125 cases.
The task force’s data also showed that 1,780 COVID-19 patients recovered on Tuesday, taking the total number of recoveries to 5,937,625.
Meanwhile, the national COVID-19 death toll increased by 8 on Tuesday. Thus, the overall fatalities reached 156,806.
On Tuesday, 21,916 active COVID-19 cases were recorded in the country, an increase of 1,573 compared to the previous day.
The number of specimens tested on Tuesday was pegged at 97,935, with the positivity rate reaching 6.70 percent.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin advised people to continue wearing masks even though Indonesia's COVID-19 cases are still categorized as safe based on the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) standards.
"President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has appealed (to us to wear masks again). It is better for us to be careful amid the increase in cases," he said while promulgating Presidential Instruction Number 3 of 2022 in Jakarta on Tuesday.
As part of efforts to boost community immunity against COVID-19, the Indonesian government launched a nationwide vaccination program on January 13, 2021, targeting as many as 208,265,720 citizens across the country.
According to data provided by the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, as of Tuesday, as many as 201,767,158 Indonesians have received the first vaccine dose, 169,378,586 have been administered the second dose, and 52,026,661 have taken the booster dose.
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Translator: Prisca Triferna, Raka Adji
Editor: Rahmad Nasution
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