A Minimum Of 37 Regional Leader Candidates Test Positive for Covid-19

General Election Commission (KPU) chairman Arief Budiman, center, speaks in a press conference. (Beritasatu Photo/Joanito De Saojoao)

Jakarta. The General Election Commission, or KPU, validated on Monday a minimum of 37 of 687 prospects for the approaching local leader election have checked positive for coronavirus.

The shocking announcement came a day after a prospect in North Sumatra passed away from coronavirus-related illness.

All candidates were required to go through a swab test prior to the three-day registration period that began on Friday.

” From the swab tests, we received info that a minimum of 37 candidates have actually checked positive,” KPU Chairman Arief Budiman said at a news conference at his workplace in Jakarta, suggesting that the number might grow.

The 37 candidates come from 21 provinces, while lots of other districts have actually not sent the test results to the KPU, he added. Arief didn’t disclose identities of those prospects.

Swab test is mandatory for any candidate according to a KPU regulation.

If the outcome comes back favorable, the prospect is needed to self-isolate and take another test. The administrative treatment is deemed total only after the prospect is devoid of the infection according to test arise from qualified medical facilities.

On Sunday, a prospect in Tanah Karo district, North Sumatra, died at health center where he was being treated for Covid-19 Jambi Surbakti, previous Tanah Karo district head, was confessed to Colombia Asia Medical facility in the provincial capital of Medan after his test outcome returned favorable. He had earlier revealed his candidacy for the upcoming district head election.

The election was at first set up on Sept. 23, however was held off to Dec. 9 due to the coronavirus outbreak. The upcoming election will elect 9 guvs, 37 mayors and 224 district heads.

The chosen leaders will serve for just three years as the federal government and legislators have actually consented to hold elections in all 34 provinces altogether in 2024.

That will become the world’s biggest election occasion as the country will also elect a brand-new president and members of your home of Representatives, the Regional Legal Council, the Provincial Legislative Council and the District/Municipal Legislative Council in the very same year.