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Bisnis.com, JAKARTA – The head of the DKI Jakarta Health Service, Widyastuti, called on the central government to carry out more stringent interventions related to large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) in the Greater Jakarta area and in other large cities.
Widyastuti argued that infectious disease control could not focus on one particular location.
According to him, a more massive PSBB scale is necessary to reduce the spread of Covid-19.
“With a more massive intervention, the PSBB was said to be stricter, even if only Jakarta, yes, Jakarta still is, but if only in Jakarta is certainly lacking, it is necessary to be more firm from the core team on how to regulate Jakarta and its surroundings, including other large cities, “Widyastuti said in a virtual discussion with the Covid-19 Report on Wednesday (9/9/2020).
He gave an example that there are several central government officials who have done official work outside the DKI area. After returning with the virus from outside the DKI area.
“I heard and saw that there were several institutions at the central level that had done their work outside the province and returned to Jakarta positive, from Jakarta there were those who brought the virus to Jakarta and also carried the virus,” he said.
According to him, 30 percent of the confirmed positive cases of Covid-19 in DKI Jakarta came from residents outside the DKI Jakarta area.
Therefore, he argued, a more massive policy was needed to stop the movement of people between provinces.
“It is impossible to talk about the movement of people only in DKI Jakarta, talking about infectious diseases is only geographically limited to Jakarta, maybe not only in Jabodetabek but outside, throughout Indonesia, how can other provinces also transmit the infection to other provinces? Pure DKI cases in Jakarta are only 70 percent, “he said.
DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said that the epidemiological conditions of Covid-19 in the DKI Jakarta area over the past week were quite concerning.
“Today, the Task Force will hold a special meeting to assess the latest developments in the Covid-19 case in Jakarta because the situation is alarming. Last week, the positivity rate in Jakarta was 13.2 percent,” he said Anies to the media team, on Wednesday (9/9/2020).
Cumulatively, according to Anies, since the beginning of the pandemic, the percentage of confirmed positive cases in DKI Jakarta has reached 6.9 percent.
“Why this is worrisome because the capacity of the hospital has a limit. If the amount that requires treatment is increasingly exceeding the capacity of the hospital and the number of medical personnel, then we will face a big problem,” he said.
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