TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The COVID-19 mitigation task force recorded that eleven provinces reported no new infection cases on Monday, June 22. “Eleven provinces report no new cases,” said the government’s spokesman for COVID-19, Achmad Yurianto, today, in Jakarta.

The provinces are Aceh, Bangka Belitung, Bengkulu, Yogyakarta, Jambi, West Kalimantan, West Sumatra, Lampung, West Papua, West Sulawesi, and East Nusa Tenggara.

Yuri also detailed that several provinces saw an increase in the number of recoveries that is higher than the new positive cases. Thus, today’s number of recoveries nationwide was recorded at 331, bringing the total tally to 18,735.

Based on the data collected by the task force, among the regions are West Java with 17 new cases and 24 recoveries, West Nusa Tenggara with 11 new cases and 13 recoveries, and Gorontalo with 3 new cases and 4 recoveries.

The examination tests were carried out by adopting the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) method in 121 laboratories, the Molecular Rapid Test (TCM) in 98 laboratories, and the Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) (RT-PCR and TCM) in 248 laboratories.

The case data were taken from the results of 10,926 tests taken on the previous day, June 21, 2020, and the total tests that have been held so far is 650,311.

According to Yuri, the number of specimens dropped significantly from the previous day since a total of 20 laboratories were closed on weekends. “Most of them are laboratories in hospitals,” he added.

The COVID-19 task force data noted that as many as 10,012 people were tested today, bringing the total number to 393,117. The examination found 954 positive cases and 9,058 negative cases, bringing the total positive cases to 45,891, and negative cases to 346,272.

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