Jokowi urges regional leaders to prepare to anticipate an increase in COVID-19 cases

President Joko Widodo asked all regional governors to make various preparations to anticipate the rapid rise and spread of positive corona cases in recent weeks, triggered by the delta transformation. This was followed by a spike outside Java and Bali.

I also call on all governors, governors and mayors outside the island of Java and Bali and the island of Java to continue their landing. “Field inspection, preparation management, whether they are medicines, whether they are medical devices, be they oxygen cylinders and also isolation sites, which is always and must be prepared,” he said while looking at Pasar Drums Flat isolation site preparation, Jakarta, Wednesday (7/7) night.

In this context, he said that Pasar Drums Flats Tower 1 is ready to receive 2,060 people. Towers 2 and 3, which are expected to accommodate 5,950 people, can be used over the next three days. This apartment will later be used as an isolation site for COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms and people without symptoms (OTG).

Finally, I would like to express my deepest thanks to the doctors, healthcare workers and all the volunteers who have worked with COVID-19 in the morning, afternoon and night, he said.

Micro PPKM tightening

Coordinating Economy Minister Airlangga Hartarto said active COVID-19 cases outside Java and Bali have increased by 34 percent. Bed occupancy rate (bed occupancy /Coronary patient BOR) in the isolation room and ICU is already over 60 percent. Therefore, the government is tightening its policy to enforce restrictions on the operation of micro-communities (PPKM) in 43 districts / cities outside Java and Bali.

The government has confirmed that it will be tightened from 6 to 20. July. This rigorous assessment, a Level 4 assessment, has found that 43 districts / cities are being blackmailed, Airlangga said.

The tightening concerns, inter alia, Banda Aceh City, Bengkulu City, Jambi City, Jambi City, Pontianak City and Singkawang City in West Kalimantan; The city of Palangkaraya in Central Kalimantan; and Bintan and Batam in the Riau archipelago.

In connection with the tightening of the micro-PPKM, Airlangga asked regional leaders to prepare infrastructure to prevent the outbreak of the coronavirus in their area. One of them is to increase testing and monitoring.tracing) World Health Organization standards (World Health Organization/WHO).

The job must be 75 percent working from home (WFH), also joins the 25% restaurant (maximum capacity) and (operates) until 17.00, and the rest aretake with. Then in shopping malls, such as shopping malls, the store closed at 17:00 local time, he explained.

Airlangga said regional governors must allocate 8 percent of the General Allocation Fund (DAU) and Revenue Sharing (DBH) budget to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, Airlangga also asked regions to increase the number of beds for COVID-19 patients in hospitals from 20 percent to 40 percent.

In the same context, Ganip Warsito, leader of the COVID-19 working group, said his party would send 452,846 task force staff to monitor health protocols outside Java and Bali to tighten PPKM Micro.

The number of personnel will also be increased from special security measures to various crowds and agencies, he said. Staff, Ganip said, oversee personal discipline by adhering to a health protocol, namely, wearing masks, maintaining distance, and preventing crowds.

The level of compliance has indeed decreased, we are increasing this with the participation of different institutions, communities so that we are more disciplined, Ganip explained.

Emergency PPKM outside Java-Bali

Pandu Riono, an epidemiologist at the University of Indonesia, told VOA that an emergency PPKM should be implemented in several areas outside Java and Bali that have the potential to experience a spike in COVID-19 cases. According to him, this method is very possible to prevent the spread of the coronavirus outbreak.

PPKM Micro doesn’t mean it can’t be done completely, so it has to be an area. For example, anywhere in Sumatra, only in Kalimantan. Because if you expect, like Java and Bali, it’s too late, prevention should be, not extinguishing fires, Pandu said.

In addition, Pandu explained that the government should engage in extensive and effective communication to make people’s behavior more disciplined in the implementation of health protocols. However, during the pandemic, he did not see the government doing so. As a result, the Community will comply with the implementation of the health protocols. In fact, he said, this change in behavior had a big enough impact on ending the pandemic.

Because we don’t have a goal to fight a pandemic, so yes, the virus is controlled, we are not the ones who control the virus, he stated. [gi/ft]