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At least 183 COVID-19 patients recovered from the virus as of 12 p.m. local time on Wednesday (June 1, 2022), according to the COVID-19 Handling Task Force.

The recoveries took the total number of recovered patients since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 to 5,895,606, data received here from the task force showed.

The provinces that contributed the most recoveries were Jakarta, with 79 recoveries; West Java, 34 recoveries; East Java, 22 recoveries; Banten, 20 recoveries, and North Sumatra, with 10 recoveries, the task force reported.

The task force also recorded an increase in the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases by 368 on Wednesday. The provinces that reported the highest number of confirmed cases were Jakarta (164), Yogyakarta (43), West Java (42), Banten (30), and East Java (27).

With the additional cases, Indonesia's total COVID-19 tally reached 6,055,341.

Meanwhile, three deaths were recorded on Wednesday:  one from East Java, one from Central Java, and one  from Jambi, taking the total count to 156,594.

The task force reported that, as of Wednesday, the number of active COVID-19 cases in Indonesia stood at 3,141, up by 182 compared to the previous day.

Further, as many as 2,445 suspected cases were identified, while the number of specimens tested reached 57,579.

The daily specimen positivity rate was recorded at 1.15 percent, while the daily person positivity rate was pegged at 0.88 percent.

Earlier, head of the Department of Community Medicine at the University of Indonesia's Faculty of Medicine (FKUI), Dr. Retno Asti Werdhani, M. Epid, asked the public to not be careless in protecting themselves from COVID-19 exposure, even though the spread of the virus in Indonesia has been brought under control.

The number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia has significantly decreased and tended to be under control, she noted.

"From the highest figure recorded around March, the number of (daily confirmed) cases has decreased by more than 50 percent, and we have maintained it for a minimum of three to four weeks," she said. (Antaranews)