Jakarta The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, has actually asked Indonesians aged 60 years and above not to leave your home for the next month to avoid Covid-19 severe sickness or death brought on by the Omicron variant, which is spreading at a breakneck speed and is anticipated to peak in 3 or 4 weeks.
” I recommend for the next 2 weeks to a month, the people aged 60 years and above, to much better stay at house for a while,” Luhut said on Saturday at a virtual meeting, part of the 96 th birthday event of Nahdlathul Ulama.
The largest Islamic company celebrated the birthday with a series of occasions in Labuan Bajo, East Nusa Tenggara, on Saturday and Sunday.
Luhut, 74, stated the majority of people contaminated with the Omicron version frequently fell ill only at a much shorter period with milder signs than the Delta variant. But, for those aged 60 or over, unvaccinated, and have comorbid diseases, the latest alternative stayed as lethal as its predecessor, he stated.
” Based on the data, the majority of those who died [from Omicron] were elderly, had comorbidities, and had actually not been immunized,” Luhut said.
Information from the Ministry of Health showed more than 5.7 million individuals aged 60 years have yet to get any dose of vaccine by Saturday.
There has to do with 21.5 million senior in the nation. Of that amount, only 156 million, or 73 percent of individuals aged 60 years or above, have received a minimum of one dosage of vaccine. More than 10.5 million (49 percent) received the 2nd dosage already, but just 863.000 had taken their 3rd dose, the information revealed.
Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin said the transmission rate of the Omicron version of Covid-19 was very high, approximating the variant peak would happen at the end of February 2022.
” We still do not know how high the peak will be in Indonesia, which we approximate will happen at the end of February. But we have actually observed that in other nations, it can be up to 3 times to 6 times from the delta peak, which in Indonesia was more than 57,000 brand-new cases per day,” Budi said.
” We need to be prepared, beware and alert, and do not require to be shocked,” he said.
Indonesia reported 33,729 new cases on Saturday, the greatest day-to-day tally considering that September. The number of day-to-day deaths has likewise reached 44, 4 times it was a week earlier. The country now has near 165,500 active cases, with Jakarta, West Java, Banten, and Bali combined accounting for 85 percent of the active cases.
