The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 0.39 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in East Kalimantan, data updated as of Saturday, January 21, 2023. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 0.42 per 100,000 people per week.
West Kutai is the regency with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases, at 1.98 per 100,000 people 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 1.98 per 100,000 people per week.
Conversely, for Balikpapan City, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 case rate of 0.62 per 100,000 people per week. This is lower than the previous week's figure of 2 per 100,000 people per week. Next is Bontang City. This regency in East Kalimantan province recorded 0.53 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people per week.
Berau and Samarinda City follow, with recorded weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 0.42 and 0.23 per 100,000 people per week, respectively.
Nationally, the average weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases across the 34 provinces is now showing a decrease compared to the previous week, which was 0.49 per 100,000 people per week.