The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 1.07 weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population in Aceh, as of Saturday, October 8, 2022. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 2.01 per 100,000 population/week.
Banda Aceh City ranked first with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases at 5.71 per 100,000 population/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 7.85 per 100,000 population/week.
Conversely, for Sabang City, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 case count of 5.7 per 100,000 population/week. This figure is higher than the previous week, which reported no weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases. Next is Aceh Besar. This city in Aceh Province recorded 2.52 weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Nagan Raya and Aceh Barat follow, with recorded weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases of 1.75 and 1.39 per 100,000 population/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 2.19 per 100,000 population/week.