The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 14.95 weekly confirmed agglomerate positive Covid-19 cases in East Kalimantan, data updated as of Wednesday, November 23, 2022. This figure is higher than the national average, which currently stands at seven cases per 100,000 population/week.
West Kutai is the regency with the highest number of weekly confirmed agglomerate positive Covid-19 cases, at 35.8 cases per 100,000 population/week. The number of weekly confirmed agglomerate positive Covid-19 cases in this regency shows improvement, with a decrease compared to the previous week, which recorded 59.01 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Conversely, for Bontang City, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly number of confirmed agglomerate positive Covid-19 cases of 26.42 per 100,000 population/week. This figure is lower than the previous week, which was 32.89 cases per 100,000 population/week. Next is Balikpapan City. This regency in East Kalimantan province recorded 17.49 weekly confirmed agglomerate positive Covid-19 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Paser and North Penajam Paser follow, with recorded weekly confirmed agglomerate positive Covid-19 cases of 17.06 per 100,000 population/week and 14.99 per 100,000 population/week, respectively.
Nationally, the average number of weekly confirmed agglomerate positive Covid-19 cases across the 34 provinces is now showing a decrease compared to the previous week, which was 7.44 cases per 100,000 population/week.