Jakarta – The COVID-19 pandemic will not interfere with the Corruption Eradication Commission’s (KPK’s) fight against corruption in Indonesia though 23 of its employees have evaluated favorable for the coronavirus, and the majority of its workers work from home, the firm’s chairman said.
” I make sure that our mandated efforts to get rid of corruption in Indonesia will not stop due to the fact that of this COVID-19 pandemic,” KPK Chairman Firli Bahuri stated in a declaration that provided to ANTARA here on Sunday.
The antigraft company’s authority has requested majority of its employees to work from home for 3 days beginning with Monday (Aug 31) after 23 employees have actually tested positive for the unique coronavirus illness (COVID-19).
In breaking the chain of the fatal coronavirus break out, the KPK structure will be closed from Aug 31 to Sept 2. It will likewise be sprayed with disinfectant.
Apart from this challenging condition, the KPK commissioners and a number of workers from the firm’s law enforcement department would still work from the office to deal with particular works that can not be done at home, Firli Bahuri said.
The COVID-19 pandemic scenario would not interrupt the company’s corruption obliteration efforts, he included.
Among those checking positive for the virus that triggers COVID-19 is Unique Baswedan, the agency’s senior detective.
In conversation with ANTARA, Baswedan noted that apart from the compulsory self-isolation, he otherwise felt healthy. “Alhamdulillah (Thank God), I feel healthy,” he stated.
Baswedan spoke of having tested positive for COVID-19 based on the swab test that he had actually recently carried out. He had earlier developed signs of COVID-19, such as cough and fever.
Unique coronavirus infections initially surfaced in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019.
Ever since, COVID-19 has spread to over 215 nations and territories, including 34 provinces of Indonesia, with a massive spurt in death toll.
To tackle this COVID-19 pandemic that has triggered public health and recessions in a number of afflicted countries, Indonesia is leaving no stone unturned to develop a vaccine to fight the infection.
Presently, in addition to the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, Indonesian researchers are working on a vaccine called after the country’s nationwide flag, Merah Putih (Red and White).
The pandemic has acutely affected Indonesia’s economy, with the country’s gross domestic product contracting 5.32 percent in the 2nd quarter of this year.
The government has laid focus on the criticality of solid support of and active involvement from all components of society to take on the public health and recessions.
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