Jakarta – The COVID-19 Dealing With Task Force has advised East Java and Central Java provinces whose COVID-19 testing ratio is still below the nationwide figure to increase screening efforts.
” East Java and Central Java are consisted of in the group whose screening ratio is still below the nationwide figure,” representative for the task force, Wiku Adisasmito, stated during a press conference that was accessed online from here on Thursday.
The screening ratio in East Java is 5 tests for every single thousand people (5:1,000), while in Central Java, the number is still extremely low at 2 tests per thousand people, he informed.
Meanwhile, the national screening ratio is currently at 7 tests per thousand people, which is above the WHO standard of one test per thousand people, he said.
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According to Adisasmito, the testing ratio of at least 22 provinces is listed below the national screening ratio. The local governments in the 22 provinces, especially East Java and Central Java, have actually been asked to scale up testing, he stated.
” Do not let the reported data be smaller sized than the real condition of cases and trigger the determination of policies that are not in accordance with the real scenario,” he worried.
In the middle of the pandemic, screening is the single benchmark for identifying the medical diagnosis of a disease, he stated.
Evaluating can likewise help ensure safe public movement due to the fact that just by evaluating individuals can those who have actually contracted the infection be identified, he included.
He stressed the requirement to strictly supervise the COVID-19 status of tourists using long-distance transportation, such as planes and ships, land transportation modes, and utilize PeduliLindungi application for evaluating tourists for short-distance activity and movement.
The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Indonesia in March2020 According to information supplied by the COVID-19 Dealing With Task Force, since February 10, 2022, Indonesia has taped 4,667,554 COVID-19 cases, 4,234,510 recoveries, and 144,858 deaths.
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