The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 2.29 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population in Papua, as of Wednesday, November 9, 2022. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 6.44 per 100,000 population/week.
Mimika is the regency with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases, at 14.43 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 14.88 per 100,000 population/week.
Conversely, for Jayapura City, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly number of confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 12.91 per 100,000 population/week. This figure is higher than the previous week, which was only 7.75 per 100,000 population/week. Next is Mamberamo Raya. This regency in Papua Province recorded 7.96 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Boven Digoel and Supiori follow, with recorded weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 5.62 and 4.72 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 4.65 per 100,000 population/week.