Jakarta – The National Catastrophe Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has sent out masks and oxygen assistance to West Papua Province in a bid to support the handling of COVID-19 in the region.
According to a BNPB press release received in Jakarta, Tuesday, 150 thousand masks were sent to West Papua comprising 30 thousand medical masks, 15 thousand KF 94 masks, 50 thousand children’s medical masks, five thousand INA cloth masks, and 55 thousand kids’s fabric masks.
” The BNPB likewise sent 50 oxygen cylinders, 50 oxygen concentrators, one thousand medical gloves, one thousand medical T-Wells, and 10 thousand systems of quick antigen test sets,” Performing Head of the BNPB Disaster Information, Information, and Interaction Center Abdul Muhari verified.
The assistance was sent out from the Halim Perdanakusuma Air Base in Jakarta, Monday (August 2), aboard a Hercules airplane belonging to the Indonesian Flying Force and is set up to show up in West Papua on Tuesday (August 3).
The Regional Armed Force Command (Kodam) XVIII/Kasuari is set up to receive the help, and the management of the Regional General Healthcare Facility (RSUD) of West Papua Province will disperse it.
According to information from the West Papua Province COVID-19 Task Force, the cumulative count of homeowners validated favorable for COVID-19 in the West Papua area as of Monday (August 2) reached 18,900 people of which 16,035 patients had actually recovered and 290 clients caught the illness.
The portion of people tested positive for COVID-19 in the region was tape-recorded at 27.6 percent of the total 68,408 individuals checked, while the percentage of COVID-19 clients who had actually recovered reached 84.4 percent of the overall number of individuals infected with the coronavirus.
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