We have to enhance the strategy on COVID-19 managing to increase public discipline.
Jakarta – The Indonesian government is developing methods to reinforce COVID-19 handling, deputy chief of the COVID-19 Handling and National Economic Recovery Committee (KPC-PEN), Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, has actually said.
The methods include introducing an enormous campaign on health protocols, establishing a main isolation facility, speeding up the vaccination program, and restricting mobility, he included.
” We need to improve the method on COVID-19 managing to increase public discipline,” Pandjaitan, who is also the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Financial investment, stated here throughout an online conversation on COVID-19 dealing with on Thursday.
The government, he stated, has 3 primary targets in the battle against COVID-19– lower everyday cases, lower mortality rate, and boost healing rate.
The first strategy is encouraging modification in public behavior through a massive health protocol campaign, and aggressive tracing and testing, the minister informed.
” We hope that dissemination of info and the campaign can be conducted enormously including various institutions, such as the Religious Affairs Ministry and the Education and Culture Ministry,” he stated.
The next method is developing a main isolation facility, Pandjaitan said.
” The use of Wisma Atlet in Greater Jakarta is the right policy, hence we can use it as a seclusion center, lower family clusters, and help overwhelmed healthcare facilities,” he mentioned.
The federal government is likewise encouraging provinces with the highest variety of favorable cases to supply a central isolation center, he revealed.
” We will enhance the management of medical treatment by making sure appropriate hospital capability, medicines and healthcare equipment,” he stated.
Another method, he included, is speeding up the COVID-19 vaccination program, under which vaccines are being administered to medical workers, public service officers, vulnerable groups, and in priority regions with high positivity rates.
” Vaccination is still ongoing, we are targeting to reach 70 percent of herd immunity in 12 months,” Pandjaitan stressed.
Reducing mobility is also crucial to control coronavirus transmission, he noted.
” Based on our experience, it will require mobility decrease of more than 30 percent to control the cases,” he stated.
Meanwhile, head of the Indonesian Epidemiology Association (PAEI), Hariadi Wibisono, said the source of the majority of the COVID-19 favorable cases could not be identified.
” Therefore, we require to intensify the 3T relocations– testing, tracing and treatment,” he remarked.
The federal government must provide affordable and accessible COVID-19 screening and tracing that includes all elements of the society, he stated. (INE)
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