Jakarta – Regardless of numerous professional athletes contracting COVID-19, there has been no cancellation of competitors at the ongoing nationwide video games in Papua, Youth and Sports Minister Zainudin Amali affirmed on Wednesday.
In basic, the organizing committee members, professional athletes, coaches, and authorities have complied with the COVID-19 health protocols,” he stated.
The organizing committee of the 20 th PON National Games has taken preventive steps to include the spread of COVID-19, he told individuals at a webinar on the Papua games that the Jakarta Media Center held on Wednesday.
Those contracting the novel coronavirus illness have been managed well, he stated. They have been separated from their associates, he said, including that most of them are asymptomatic.
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The PON is being kept in Jayapura city and the districts of Jayapura, Mimika, and Merauke from October 2 to October 15, 2021.
A minimum of 6,400 professional athletes and 3,500 officials from 34 provinces throughout Indonesia are supposedly participating in Papua’s PON National Games, which features 37 sports branches.
ANTARA reported earlier that regardless of a favorable security scenario, the Papua COVID-19 Job Force on Tuesday evening validated 29 COVID-19 cases in the 4 clusters arranging the Papua video games.
The 29 people are performing self-isolation at designated sites, consisting of drifting isolation centers aboard MV Tidar (Jayapura cluster) and MV Sirimau (Merauke cluster).
The 29 people exposed to the coronavirus include athletes, officials, and members of the event’s arranging committee, the Papua COVID-19 Job Force representative, Silwanus Sumule, stated.
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On the other hand, sHouse of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Puan Maharani suggested that the implementation of health protocols at the Papua PON arenas be assessed.
” An assessment should be carried out of the health procedures at the Papua PON. We do not want to run the risk of individuals’s safety,” she stated while prompting the organizers to separate those who have contracted COVID-19
Home Minister Tito Karnavian has actually provided a direction to halt the spread of the unique coronavirus disease throughout the assembling of Papua’s PON National Games.
In his Ministerial Instruction No.46/2021, Karnavian has actually asked all professional athletes, authorities, organizing committee members, and spectators to adhere to stringent COVID-19 health procedures throughout the multi-sport occasion.
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