The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 0.78 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population in North Sumatra, data updated as of Monday, December 19, 2022. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 2.03 per 100,000 population/week.
Pematangsiantar City ranked first with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases at 3.83 per 100,000 population/week. The number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases in this city shows improvement with a decrease compared to the previous week, which recorded 4.98 per 100,000 population/week.
Conversely, for Tebing Tinggi City, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly number of confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 2.93 per 100,000 population/week. This figure is lower than the previous week's 4.1 per 100,000 population/week. Next is Medan City. This city in North Sumatra province recorded 2.4 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Simalungun and Toba Samosir follow, with recorded weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 2.28 and 1.62 per 100,000 population/week, respectively.
Nationally, the average number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases across the 34 provinces is now showing a decrease compared to the previous week, which was 2.69 per 100,000 population/week.