Jakarta – The COVID-19 positivity rate taped at sea and land travel entry points is currently greater than at air travel entry points, federal government representative for COVID-19 Handling, Prof. Wiku Adisasmito, notified on Thursday.
” The government will continue to tighten screening and tracing efforts at all entry points because the (COVID-19) positivity rate at sea and land travel entry points is significantly greater than at flight entry points,” he said in a press declaration on the development of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, accessed from here on Thursday.
During the period from December 12 to18, 2021, the positivity rate at air entry points was 0.
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The tightening up of guidance at all entry points is a follow-up to the detection of Omicron cases in the country, he stated.
Based upon whole-genome sequencing (WGS) performed this week, 3 new cases of Omicron have actually been validated in Indonesia: an Indonesian citizen returning from Malaysia and 2 Indonesian people getting here from Congo, he added.
” For that reason, since today, there are eight favorable cases of Omicron (in Indonesia),” he kept in mind.
To this end, he affirmed that the federal government would tighten supervision at all air, sea, and land entry points.
The very first case of COVID-19 was verified in Indonesia in March2020 According to data provided by the COVID-19 Dealing With Job Force, since December 23, 2021, a minimum of 4,261,208 people have evaluated positive for COVID-19 in the country, while 4,112,524 people have recovered, and 144,042 people have actually succumbed to the deadly virus.
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