The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 2.84 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population in East Kalimantan, data updated on Monday, October 10, 2022. This figure is higher than the national average, which currently stands at 1.93 per 100,000 population/week.
Balikpapan City ranked first with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases at 9.44 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 10.22 per 100,000 population/week.
Conversely, for West Kutai, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 case count of 4.64 per 100,000 population/week. This figure is lower than the previous week's 6.63 per 100,000 population/week. Next is Paser. This city in East Kalimantan province recorded 3.48 weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Penajam Paser Utara and Samarinda City followed with recorded weekly confirmed positive Covid-19 cases of 2.5 and 2.19 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 2.2 per 100,000 population/week.