The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 13.3 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases in Central Kalimantan, data updated as of Tuesday, August 9, 2022. This figure is higher than the national average, which currently stands at 5.39 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Palangkaraya City ranks first with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases at 59.5 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 60.52 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Conversely, for Pulang Pisau, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly number of confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 26.41 per 100,000 population/week. This figure is higher than the previous week's 14.76 cases per 100,000 population/week. Next is Barito Selatan. This city in Central Kalimantan province recorded 24.94 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Kapuas and Barito Timur follow with recorded weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 19.93 and 19.51 per 100,000 population/week, 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 4.87 cases per 100,000 population/week.