Pekanbaru, Riau – With Riau Election Commission (KPU) Chairman Ilham Muhammad Nasir testing positive for COVID-19, other commissioners of the provincial KPU underwent checking to discover the existence of the unique coronavirus illness (COVID-19).
” All (Riau) KPU commissioners and personnel working in the same office and having actually can be found in direct contact (with Nasir) have undergone throat swab tests and currently await the outcomes,” Riau KPU Commissioner Nugroho Noto Susanto stated here on Saturday.
Nasir underwent a COVID-19 evaluation on Tuesday (Sept 8) after returning from an official journey in the Meranti Islands District, and the outcomes on Friday verified he had actually contracted the coronavirus.
The Riau KPU commissioners and staff, who have actually gone through the tests, are advised to carry out independent isolation while awaiting outcomes of the evaluation.
” The chairman is likewise currently not being treated at the healthcare facility but undergoing independent seclusion because he is fine, so far, without any symptoms. He just felt tired after returning from Meranti,” Susanto noted.
Disinfectant has been sprayed in the Riau KPU office complex and was briefly near lower the risk of COVID-19 transmission.
” Meanwhile, the KPU workplace is closed, and we will work from home, starting next week,” he revealed.
As Indonesia prepares for the 2020 simultaneous regional head elections (Pilkada) to be organized in 270 areas on Dec 9, the number of COVID-19 cases has soared quite substantially.
Those infected consisted of prospective candidates of Pilkada, commissioners and staff of the main and local KPU in addition to local Bawaslu (election supervisory board).
Commissioner of the central KPU Evi Novida Ginting Manik in Jakarta evaluated positive for COVID-19
Manik is presently self-isolating while keeping abreast of all KPU activities online.
In Boyolali, Central Java, 69 KPU officers got infected with COVID-19
In Papua, a member of the local KPU had actually contracted the virus.
In East Barito District, Central Kalimantan, head of the regional election supervisory office (Bawaslu), identified as F, 37, and a member of the local election workplace (KPU), determined as Z, 44, had checked positive for COVID-19 for the 2nd time.
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