UPDATE: Now There are 123,503 Covid-19 Cases in Indonesia, Increase by 2,277

Editor: Lia Sisvita Dinatri

TRIBUNBATAM.id - Coronavirus transmission continues to occur in the community. And this makes the number of Covid-19 cases in Indonesia continue to increase today, Saturday (8/8/2020).

A high number of new cases have been added, even though the Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia has been going on for more than five months. 

Government data that entered until Saturday at 12.00 WIB showed that there were 2,277 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.

This addition caused the total number of Covid-19 cases in Indonesia to reaching 123,503 people.

This information was conveyed by the Covid-19 Handling Task Force through the Covid19.go.id website, which was updated on Saturday afternoon. 

A total of 2,277 new cases were discovered after the government examined 30,565 specimens from 11,692 people sampled.

In total, there have been 1,693,880 specimen examinations from 963,602 people sampled.

With a note, one person can undergo the examination more than once. 

It is known that there are additional 1,749 Covid-19 patients who recover in a day.

Thus, the total number of Covid-19 patients who were declared cured and no longer infected with the coronavirus was 79,306 people.

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They were declared cured after two tests with the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method which showed negative results for the coronavirus.

Currently, the percentage of recovered patients reaches 64.2 percent of all Covid-19 cases.

However, there is still sad news with the addition of Covid-19 patients who have died. 

The dynamics of the number of Covid-19 patients who have recovered and died have left 38,539 people still undergoing treatment.