The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 1.47 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population in North Sulawesi, data updated as of Saturday, July 23, 2022. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 3.91 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Tomohon City ranked first with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases at 4.53 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 5.43 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Conversely, for Bitung City, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly number of confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 3.98 per 100,000 population/week. This figure is higher than the previous week, which reported no weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases. Next is South Minahasa. This city in North Sulawesi province recorded 3.77 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Manado City and North Minahasa follow with recorded weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of three per 100,000 population/week and 2.44 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, which was only 2.57 cases per 100,000 population/week.