The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 0.18 weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), as of Saturday, March 25, 2023. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 0.34 per 100,000 population per week.
Central Sumba is the regency with the highest number of weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases, at 1.31 per 100,000 population per week. The number of weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases in this regency shows improvement, with a decrease compared to the previous week, which recorded 2.61 per 100,000 population per week.
Conversely, for West Sumba, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly confirmed COVID-19 case count of 0.73 per 100,000 population per week. This figure is higher than the previous week, which reported zero weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases. Next is Malaka. This regency in NTT province recorded 0.49 weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population per week.
North Central Timor and Sikka follow, with recorded weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases of 0.38 and 0.31 per 100,000 population per week, respectively.
Nationally, the average number of weekly confirmed COVID-19 cases across the 34 provinces is currently on an upward trend compared to the previous week, which was only 0.33 per 100,000 population per week.