"The fresh cases are of the cluster of the Tabalong General Election Commission (KPU) office," said Taufik in Tanjung, Tuesday.
There were detected to have contracted the disease after underwent an independent swab test at the Pertamina Hospital in Tanjung.
Taufik added that the 10 positive patients have a history of travel outside the province.
"Currently they are undergoing treatment at a special isolation for COVID-19 handling and are classified as OTG (asymptomatic)," he said.
Separately, Secretary of Tabalong KPU Nanang confirmed 10 people in the KPU cluster confirmed with COVID-19.
"We confirmed the official statement from the spokesperson for COVID-19 and hopefully this condition will not affect the implementation of 2020 regional election," explained Nanang.
Meanwhile, the total number of patients confirmed positive for COVID-19 in the district has reahed 471, and 453 had been declared recovered, and eight people died.
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