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Most recent COVID deaths from those with no booster jab: Govt
As COVID-19 cases increase in the past few weeks, the Health Ministry has recorded that 48 percent of the deaths from Oct. 4 to Nov. 8 are people who have received no vaccine.
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A medical worker administers a booster COVID-19 vaccine dose at Qbig shopping mall in Pagedangan, Tangerang, Banten, on Sept. 18. (Antara/Fauzan)
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s COVID-19 cases increase in the past few weeks, the Health Ministry has recorded a total of 1,373 deaths from Oct. 4 to Nov. 8, with 48 percent of the deaths people who have received no vaccine.
Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin in a statement on Wednesday said that the deaths made up about 5 percent of the total 27,018 patients hospitalized during the period.
Authorities reported 6,601 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, the highest daily rise since the previous peak on Aug. 4, when it hit 6,527. A total of 6,186 new cases were reported on Wednesday.
The country has seen cases rise following the detection of the country’s first local transmissions of the new XBB strain of the Omicron variant. The total number of current active cases is 43,797 increasing from 30,080 recorded on Nov. 3.
Budi also reported that of the total number of hospitalized patients in the past month, 10,639 had medium, severe and critical symptoms.
“Of this group, 40 percent have yet to receive any shot. Furthermore, 84 percent of deaths [in patients of this category] have not received booster jabs,” the minister said as quoted by Tempo.
He also reported that since Oct. 29, at least half of the patients having to be treated at intensive-care units were those above 60 years old.
