The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 2.98 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in East Java, as of Thursday, October 13, 2022. This figure is higher than the national average, which currently stands at 1.98 cases per 100,000 people per week.
Bangkalan is the regency with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases, at 7.73 per 100,000 people per week. The number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases in this regency shows no improvement, having increased from 7.68 per 100,000 people per week the previous week.
The same situation occurs in Mojokerto, which recorded 7.73 confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people per week. In this regency, the number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases is also higher than the previous week's figure of 7.68 per 100,000 people per week. Next is Gresik. This regency in East Java province recorded 7.73 confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 people per week.
Mojokerto City and Lamongan follow, with recorded weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 7.73 per 100,000 people per week and 7.73 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's figure of 2.06 per 100,000 people per week.