The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 0.36 weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in West Kalimantan, as of Thursday, February 23, 2023. This figure is higher than the national average, which currently stands at 0.18 per 100,000 people per week.
Pontianak City ranked first with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases at 1.04 per 100,000 people 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 1.33 per 100,000 people per week.
Conversely, for Singkawang City, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 case count of 0.85 per 100,000 people per week. This figure is higher than the previous week's 0.42 per 100,000 people per week. Kayong Utara follows. This city in West Kalimantan province recorded 0.84 weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people per week.
Mempawah and Landak follow, recording 0.74 and 0.51 weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people 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 0.19 per 100,000 people per week.