JAKARTA– Indonesia yesterday confirmed 46,843 new COVID-19 cases, raising the total tally to 4,626,936, said its Ministry of Health.
The ministry’s senior official, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, said yesterday that, the total number of confirmed cases with the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in the archipelago, has risen to 4,768, with most of them being locally transmitted cases.
According to the ministry, the death toll from COVID-19 rose by 65 to 144,784, while the total number of recoveries rose to 4,216,328, with 14,016 newly recorded, during the past 24 hours.
The Indonesian government is accelerating national vaccination programmes to curb the spread of the virus. More than 187.29 million people in the country have received their first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, while over 132.66 million have taken their second doses, according to the ministry.
Source: NAM NEWS NETWORK