The Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) recorded an average of 4.56 weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), data updated as of Saturday, November 12, 2022. This figure is lower than the national average, which currently stands at 7.14 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Mataram City ranks first with the highest number of weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases at 15.73 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 18.2 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Conversely, for West Lombok, Ministry of Health data shows a weekly number of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases of 11.31 per 100,000 population/week. This figure is higher than the previous week, which was only 6.19 per 100,000 population/week. Next is North Lombok. This city in NTB province recorded 4.32 weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases per 100,000 population/week.
Bima and West Sumbawa are next, with recorded weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases of 3.69 per 100,000 population/week and 3.65 per 100,000 population/week, respectively.
Nationally, the average number of weekly confirmed positive COVID-19 cases in the 34 provinces is currently on an upward trend compared to the previous week, which was only 5.53 cases per 100,000 population/week.