The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 1.71 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population in North Sumatra, data updated as of Tuesday, September 6, 2022. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 3.65 cases per 100,000 population per week.
Medan City ranks first with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases at 9.57 per 100,000 population per 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 11.58 cases per 100,000 population per week.
Conversely, for Pematangsiantar City, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly number of confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 7.28 per 100,000 population per week. This figure is lower than the previous week's 18.01 cases per 100,000 population per week. Next is Samosir. This city in North Sumatra province recorded 3.93 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population per week.
Pakpak Bharat and Toba Samosir follow with recorded weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 3.81 and 3.77 per 100,000 population per 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 4.35 cases per 100,000 population per week.