Tabalong adds 33 COVID-19 cases, stop offline schooling

Tanjung, S Kalimantan (ANTARA) - The government of Tabalong District has to stopped offline schooling in several schools following the spike of confirmed positive COVID-19 cases here.

The government's spokesperson for COVID-19 acceleration handling task force Taufiqurrahman Hamdie said that the district added 33 new cases.

"The new cases are found in six sub-districts and the most is in Murung Pudak with 20 cases," Taufik expounded in Tanjung, Tuesday.

Othe patients were from the sub-districts of Tanta, Tanjung, Kelua, Banua Lawas, and Haruai.

The additional cases bringing the number to 84 of patients now being treated at the hospitals.

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Tabalong Regent Anang Syakhfiani urged sub-district heads, villages heads, and all elements of society to respond to the surge in the spread of Coronavirus in the district.

"I ask face-to-face learning to be stopped (temporarily), espepcially in schools where positive cases of COVID-19 were found," said Anang.

The spike of COVID-19 cases has caused the northenmost district in South Kalimantan to be in the status of level 3 community activity restriction (PPKM) together with Balangan and Tanah Laut.

Meanwhile, other regions that were declared to be in the level 3 of PPKM were Banjar District, North Hulu Sungai District, Central Hulu Sungai District, Batola District, Tapin District, Banjarmasin City, and Banjarbaru City.

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