The nationwide COVID-19 task force has actually added Aceh and Bali to its list of prioritized provinces with the areas seeing rising day-to-day case tallies.
The 2 provinces were contributed to the eight provinces formerly named leading priorities in the federal government’s COVID-19 reaction, task force chief Doni Monardo stated.
The initial 8 provinces called were Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, North Sumatra, South Kalimantan, South Sulawesi and Papua.
” Now there are 10 provinces in total,” he announced during a virtual press conference after meeting with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo on Monday, as reported by kompas.com
Since Monday, Aceh had tape-recorded 4,325 verified cases and 167 deaths, while Bali logged 107 new cases on Monday to increase its total tally to 8,639 cases and 263 fatalities, according to Health Ministry information.
Jokowi selected Doni and Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Panjaitan to supervise the application of COVID-19 steps in prioritized provinces.
Job force spokesperson Wiku Adisasmito previously stated the President had actually set numerous objectives for the aforementioned prioritized provinces, consisting of a decrease in the number of new cases tape-recorded daily, an increase in recoveries as well as a decline in fatality rates.
” The President required these goals be fulfilled within the next 2 weeks,” he said last week.
Among the government’s many steps, it has begun Operasi Yustisi to keep an eye on and discipline the general public in regards to health protocol compliance in prioritized areas that are continuing to tape spikes in COVID-19 cases.
Separately, epidemiologist from the University of Indonesia’s School of Public Health Pandu Riono advised the government to impose stricter social restrictions in prioritized provinces.
” More stringent procedures like those executed in Jakarta are required to contain COVID-19 infections. At least, stricter procedures need to be executed in the prioritized provinces, which are mostly located in Java,” Pandu said on Monday, as quoted by Kompas
Omitting Aceh, the prioritized provinces account for 75 percent of Indonesia’s confirmed COVID-19 cases, which has actually captured the attention of Jokowi.
” Stricter PSBB [large-scale social restrictions], which were previously condemned, have actually shown to be reliable in including the spread of COVID-19 The circumstance in Jakarta is now seen as stagnant,” he included, citing that the city ' s COVID-19 day-to-day recreation number (Rt) had actually decreased from 1.14 to 1.10 after stricter PSBB measures were carried out.
He also encouraged the government not to ease constraints too quickly in the hopes of stimulating a financial recovery.
” If the pandemic is not managed well, the economy will not recover either,” (trn)
