The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 1.36 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population in Papua, based on data updated on Friday, September 30, 2022. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 2.17 per 100,000 population/week.
Mimika is the regency with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases, at 13.53 per 100,000 population/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 16.23 per 100,000 population/week.
Conversely, for Keerom, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 case count of 6.78 per 100,000 population/week. This figure is higher than the previous week's 1.7 per 100,000 population/week. Next is Biak Numfor. This regency in Papua province recorded 3.98 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Jayapura City and Waropen follow, with recorded weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 3.55 and 3 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 2.32 per 100,000 population/week.