The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 1.46 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population in Papua, as of Monday, October 31, 2022. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 4.09 cases per 100,000 population per week.
Mimika is the regency with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases, at 11.72 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 12.62 cases per 100,000 population per week.
Conversely, for Jayapura City, Ministry of Health data shows 7.1 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population. This figure is higher than the previous week's 2.58 cases per 100,000 population per week. Merauke follows, with 5.88 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population.
Keerom and Jayapura are next, recording 3.39 and 3.09 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population, respectively.
Nationally, the average number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases across the 34 provinces is currently on an upward trend compared to the previous week's figure of 2.91 cases per 100,000 population per week.