The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 0.91 weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in West Java, data updated as of Friday, January 20, 2023. This figure is higher than the national average, which currently stands at 0.45 cases per 100,000 people per week.
Bandung City ranked first with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases at 3.69 per 100,000 people per 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 4.61 cases per 100,000 people per week.
Conversely, for Cimahi City, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 case count of 2.61 per 100,000 people per week. This figure is higher than the previous week's 2.12 cases per 100,000 people per week. Next is Bekasi City. This city in West Java province recorded 2.36 weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people per week.
Bandung Barat and Depok City follow, with recorded weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases of 1.82 and 1.71 per 100,000 people per 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 0.52 cases per 100,000 people per week.