PALANGKA RAYA – PROTOCOL AND PUBLIC COMMUNICATION BUREAU. The distribution of COVID-19 cases in Central Kalimantan today, Thursday (04/23/2020) at 15:00 WIB, as conveyed through the release of the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19 of Central Kalimantan Province, namely the number of patients confirmed positive for COVID-19 increased by 1 person from the City of Palangka Raya,  bringing the total to 83 people with details of 54 people being treated at Doris Sylvanus Regional Hospital, 13 people in Sultan Imanuddin Regional Hospital, 14 people in Regional General Hospital dr. Moerjani, and 2 people in Kapuas (local government quarantine). For COVID-19 patients who are currently being treated as many as 70 people, recovered 9 people, and died 4 people.

Meanwhile, the total number of people under investigation (ODP) was 315 (increased by 63 people from yesterday as many as 252 people), the number of people without symptoms (OTG) was 563 people (increased by 140 people from yesterday as many as 423 people) with the highest OTG in West Kotawaringin Regency is 153 people, the number of Patients Under Investigation (PDP) as many as 73 people (increased by 13 people from the previous as many as 60 people).

Until now, there have been 11 regencies and 1 city in Central Kalimantan that are in the red zone, 1 regency in the yellow zone namely Gunung Mas, and the only regency in the green zone is Sukamara.

The government continues to remind the public to comply with the recommendations to maintain personal and family health, including by disciplining social / physical distancing, washing hands as often as possible with soap in running water or using hand sanitizers, avoiding crowds, avoiding going out to often, and using face masks if you have to leave the house. (dew/udn/website https://corona.kalteng.go.id/translated by feb)