The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 1.36 weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT), as of Sunday, December 18, 2022. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 2.1 cases per 100,000 population per week.
Central Sumba is the regency with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases, at 13.23 per 100,000 population per week. The number of weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in this regency shows improvement, with a decrease compared to the previous week, which recorded 17.2 cases per 100,000 population per week.
Conversely, for Kupang City, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases of 3.41 per 100,000 population per week. This figure is lower than the previous week's 8.94 cases per 100,000 population per week. Next is West Manggarai. This regency in NTT province recorded 2.73 weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population per week.
West Sumba and Alor follow, with recorded weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases of 1.48 and 1.43 per 100,000 population 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 3.24 cases per 100,000 population per week.