Jakarta – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) contacted his subordinates and local heads to not be hasty in taking a choice to impose a lockdown in their areas to ward off the transmission of COVID-19
” As soon as again, do not hurry to close an area, city, or district, and if we work based upon information, the intervention steps will be more efficient and can instantly solve issues on the field,” Jokowi said while chairing a restricted cabinet conference at the Merdeka Palace here on Monday on efforts to help with economy recovery throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
The president likewise reminded that choices taken in reaction to extra cases in provinces, districts, or cities ought to be based on circulation information.
” I have informed you many times to apply local-based intervention strategies and local-scale constraint methods, be it at the RT, RW (area level), village level, or hamlet level, so that the dealing with mechanism is more in-depth and focused,” the president noted.
President Jokowi mentioned as an example that a province might have 20 districts and cities, but not all of them are classified as red zones. Hence, the handling mechanisms ought to not be generalized.
” Some are green (zones), while others are yellow zones, thereby demanding different treatment and handling mechanisms,” the president mentioned.
Jokowi especially pressed for improvement in the COVID-19 handling mechanisms in eight provinces: Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, North Sumatra, South Sulawesi, South Kalimantan, and Papua.
Jakarta Guv Anies Baswedan had actually previously chosen to re-enforce stringent massive social distancing (PSBB) procedures in Jakarta, as of Sept 14, 2020, for the subsequent 2 weeks as a kind of an “emergency situation brake” system in the wake of the capital city experiencing a nearly 50- percent spike in the number of COVID-19 cases lately.
Baswedan kept in mind that over the last 12 days of September, the variety of validated cases in Jakarta had actually increased by 3,864, or 49 percent.
Furthermore, death rate in the capital city rose, while the variety of isolation beds and special ICU spaces for COVID-19 treatment were limited.
The Jakarta government has actually bought the closure of schools and universities, tourism and leisure areas, city parks, public sports facilities, and wedding party venues.
Places of praise in suburbs utilized by local residents can run by using health procedures.
Markets and shopping mall can operate, with a maximum visitor capacity of 50 percent at one place at the same time, while dining establishments and cafes can only receive take-away orders.
As of Sunday (Sept 13), the validated COVID-19 tally in Indonesia reached 218,382 people, consisting of 3,626 fresh cases within the last 24 hours. An overall of 155,010 people have recuperated from the disease, while the death toll reached 8,723
Jakarta taped a total of 54,220 cases, with an increase of 1,380 cases as of Sunday, Sept 13.
The second-largest count of COVID-19 cases was tape-recorded in East Java, at 38,088 cases, followed by 17,742 cases in Central Java, 14,388 cases in West Java, and 13,291 cases in South Sulawesi.
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