Indonesia Sees Over 1,000 News Cases; 9 Deaths

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Selasa, 18 Januari 2022 20:00 WIB

A medical worker performs a health screening on a woman who will receive a booster vaccine dose against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as the country starts the booster vaccination program for the general public amid the rises of the Omicron variant in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 12, 2022. Elderly and immunocompromised residents, who are being prioritised in the programme, queued up at local health centres to boost their defences against a virus that has infected more than 4 million Indonesians. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The number of Covid-19 cases in Indonesia continues to rise with daily infections exceeding 1,000. As of noon today, January 18, 1,362 new cases were recorded over the last 24 hours.

To date, Indonesia has logged a total of 4,273,783 Covid-19 cases since the new coronavirus was first detected in the country in early March 2020.

The Indonesian Covid-19 Task Force today also reported 564 additional recoveries today to bring the number of Indonesia's Covid survivors to 4,120,036.

The number of patients who died from Covid-19 today increased by 9, raising the nation's coronavirus casualties to 144,183.

In addition to positive cases, the government is also monitoring 5,132 people suspected of having contracted the virus and examining 278,927 specimens.

Read: Local Transmission of Omicron Discovered in 9 Regions: Ministry

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