The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 3.08 weekly confirmed agglomerate positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population in South Sulawesi, data updated as of Saturday, November 19, 2022. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 7.37 per 100,000 population/week.
North Toraja is the regency with the highest number of weekly confirmed agglomerate positive COVID-19 cases, at 11.3 per 100,000 population/week. The number of weekly confirmed agglomerate positive COVID-19 cases in this regency shows improvement, with a decrease compared to the previous week, which recorded 15.9 per 100,000 population/week.
Conversely, for Makassar City, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly number of confirmed agglomerate positive COVID-19 cases of 7.76 per 100,000 population/week. This figure is lower than the previous week's 14.38 per 100,000 population/week. Next is Maros. This regency in South Sulawesi province recorded 6.94 weekly confirmed agglomerate positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Luwu Timur and Takalar follow, with recorded weekly confirmed agglomerate positive COVID-19 cases of 6.82 per 100,000 population/week and 5.33 per 100,000 population/week, respectively.
Nationally, the average weekly number of confirmed agglomerate positive COVID-19 cases across the 34 provinces is currently on an upward trend compared to the previous week, which was 6.96 per 100,000 population/week.