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KOMPAS.com – The government has recently changed the travel conditions for people traveling out of town during the corona virus pandemic.
The new policy calls for a rapid document-based antigen test, based on the swab or swab method, which previously tested for antibodies with a blood sample.
The regulation is contained in the Circular (SE) of the Working Group for the Acceleration of the Management of Covid-19 Number 9 of 2020 on the Criteria and Requirements for the Travel of People in a Period of Adaptation to New Habits towards a Productive and Safe Society . Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19).
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In line with this new regulation, the government through the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) and the Supervisory Agency for Finance and Development (BPKP) has set the highest rate limit for rapid antigen tests.
The upper limit of the antigen test in Java is 250,000 IDR and 275,000 IDR for off the island of Java.
The highest rate for the price of the rapid antigen test is regulated in the number SE HK.02.02 / 1/4611/2020 with respect to the limit of the highest rate for the rapid test with antigen swab.
“The highest fee limit for rapid test antigen examination (using the swab method) is Rs 250,000 in Java and Rs 275,000 outside Java,” said on Friday (12/18/2020) the Secretary of the Director General of Health Services, Ministry of Health, Azhar Jaya.
The highest rate applies to people who perform self-requested rapid antigen tests performed in hospitals, laboratories, and other facilities.
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How is it implemented?
Caregivers of the Islamic boarding school Tebuireng KH. Abdul Hakim Mahfudz attended a rapid antigen test at Tebuireng Islamic Boarding School, Jombang, East Java, on Sunday (9/27/2020).
The head of the Advocacy and Public Relations Branch of the General Directorate of Health Services of the Ministry of Health, Rico Mardiansyah, said that this SE gave the authority to the Provincial Health Service (Dinkes) and Regency / Health Office of the City to guide and supervise the application of the SE.
In addition to the compliance of service providers to comply with the SE, he continued, the health office also plays a role in socialization in the region.
“In addition to providing guidance and supervision to health care facilities that provide antigen swab services to comply with the maximum rate provisions established by the Ministry of Health through the General Directorate of Health Services,” Rico said when contacted. Kompas.com, Saturday (11/19/2020).
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Are there sanctions?
According to Rico, according to the provisions of the Legislation, the SE cannot include sanctions provisions.
So, Rico explained, its implementation would be related to the independent compliance of service providers.
“(Also) the guidance and oversight of the Provincial Health Office and the Regency / City Health Office to ensure that all service providers adhere to the highest rate limit for antigen swabs,” he added.
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