Batam Adds 27 Covid-19 New Cases, Mostly Private Employees

Editor: Putri Larasati Anggiawan

TRIBUNBATAM.id, BATAM - Corona virus in Batam is again dominated by private employees.

Of the 27 new cases of data from the Batam City Covid-19 Task Force, 15 of them are private employees.

The majority of them were confirmed asymptomatic and spread across a number of sub-districts in Batam City.

Such as Batam Kota, Sagulung, Batuaji, Sekupang, Sei Beduk, Bengkong to Mukakuning Dormitory.

Not only private employees, Corona virus in Batam is also still targeting housewives ( IRT), students, civil servants, entrepreneurs, teachers to banking employees.

The addition of this case was based on the results of the BTKL-PP Batam swab test, Saturday (17/10).

27 new Corona cases has increased the number of Covid-19 cases in Batam City to 2,136 cases.

"These findings suggest that there is still the possibility of new cases from existing clusters, or new findings in Batam City," said Batam City Covid-19 Task Force Health Division Chairman Didi Kusmardjadi in a statement received by TribunBatam.id, Sunday (18/10/2020). (TribunBatam.id/Hening Sekar Utami)

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