Banda Aceh - Based on data from the Infographic Update for the acceleration of handling COVID-19 in Indonesia as of August 17, 2020 at 12.00 WIB, accumulative positive data for Covid-19 in Aceh have reached 1,044 cases. The details, 191 people have recovered and 26 people died.
Based on data sourced from the Indonesian Ministry of Health and published on the Facebook account of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), the number of 1,044 positive cases occurred after the addition of 168 new confirmed positive cases.
Meanwhile, nationally, the accumulative positive data for Covid-19 in Indonesia as of August 17, 2020, at 12.00 WIB, starting from the announcement of the first patient on March 2, 2020, had reached 141,370 cases after the addition of 1,821 new cases. In details, 94,458 people have recovered and 6,207 people have died. There was an additional recovery of 1,355 people and an additional death toll of 57 people.
Meanwhile, 1,821 new cases were discovered after examining 12,453 specimens a day. There were 7,224 people who were examined in the same period. In accumulation, the government has examined 1,900,668 specimens from 1,068,945 people sampled.
As of today, DKI Jakarta has recorded the most new cases with the addition of 552, bringing the total to 29,952 cases. The second highest addition of cases today is in East Java. There are 336 new cases, with a total of 28,239 confirmed positive cases. Meanwhile, two other regions recorded the addition of more than 100 new cases, namely Aceh (168 cases) and East Kalimantan (116 cases).
Meanwhile, the regions with the most daily recovered patients per day are East Java with an additional 416 recovered cases and DKI Jakarta 209 people.