Some 32 COVID-19 patients, whose test results came back positive for COVID-19, underwent treatment at the emergency hospital at Galang Island, Riau Islands, according to data as of 8 a.m. local time, April 23, 2020.

Commander of the Joint Regional Defense Command (Pangkogabwilhan) I Vice Admiral Yudo Margono, in a press statement on Thursday, noted that Galang Island Hospital had treated 43 patients.

All patients were male, with 32 having tested positive for COVID-19 and 11 asymptomatic patients.

According to the latest recorded data, the number of COVID-19 positive patients increased by one individual to reach 32 patients, from earlier 31.

The number of patients presenting no symptoms of the disease increased by two to reach 11, from nine earlier, while the number of patients under surveillance (PDP) went down by three.

Margono had earlier confirmed that 423 personnel from the Integrated Joint Task Command (Kogasgabpad), comprising accompanying task force, security task force, and supporting task force, were deployed at the Galang Island Hospital.

"The accompanying task force assigned to conduct maintenance measures comprises 43 Indonesian Army members, 10 Indonesian Navy personnel, 18 Indonesian Air Force troops, two police officers, 25 Ministry of Health personnel, and 49 volunteers," he expounded.

Galang Island Hospital, built on March 9, 2020, as a precautionary measure to tackle a surge in the number of COVID-19 patients in Indonesia, has been officially operational since April 6, 2020.

The Galang Island Hospital has 340 observation rooms and 20 isolation rooms.

Achmad Yurianto, the government’s spokesman for COVID-19 Handling, remarked that 913 COVID-19 patients had recovered out of the total of 7,418 COVID-19 positive cases as of 12 p.m. local time, Wednesday, April 22, 2020.

"Meanwhile, the number of deceased patients reached 635, patients under surveillance stood at 17,754, and 193,571 people under monitoring," Yurianto noted during a video press conference in Jakarta, Wednesday (Apr 22).

The data indicates the rise from Tuesday's data on Apr 21 at 12 p.m. local time, with the number of positive cases increasing by 283, 71 more patients having recovered, and 19 other patients having died. (ANTARA)