Indonesia on Saturday recorded 14,518 new coronavirus infections, 10,242 recoveries, and 210 deaths over a single day, the Task Force for COVID-19 Handling reported.
With this, the total tally of cases in the country has risen to 1,066,313, while total recoveries have reached 862,502, and the death toll has climbed to 29,728.
At present, Indonesia has 174,083 active cases and 80,114 people in 510 districts and cities are suspected to have contracted the virus.
In the last 24 hours, a total of 70,026 specimens from 40,629 people have been tested in 613 laboratories across the country, bringing the cumulative examined specimens to 9,194,031 so far. The country’s positivity rate is currently at 17.4 percent.
The provinces with the highest number of new cases on Saturday comprise West Java with 4,601 cases, followed by Jakarta (3,491), Central Java (1,237), East Java (830), and East Kalimantan (701).
The largest number of daily recoveries have been recorded in Jakarta (3,885), followed by West Java (1,484), East Java (830), South Sulawesi (627), and Central Java (528). Jakarta has so far recorded the highest cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases at 266,244, and total recoveries at 238,438.
