Representative validates 13 KPK workers, detainee contracting COVID-19

The contaminated prisoner is quarantined at the National Cops Health Center

Jakarta – Indonesia’s Corruption Elimination Commission’s (KPK’s) 13 staff members and this anti-graft company’s detainee tested favorable for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) based upon the outcomes of their recent swab tests, the company’s representative, Ali Fikri, validated.

The firm’s workers had chosen self-quarantine through cooperation with health authorities from public health centers near all workers’ houses, Fikri was estimated by ANTARA as stating in Jakarta on Friday.

” The contaminated prisoner is quarantined at the National Police Healthcare Facility,” he remarked, including that the KPK had once again conducted a swab test program for its workers and inmates by collaborating with the firm’s clinic and the Gatot Subroto Army Hospital on Thursday.

PCR testing was performed as part of the KPK’s preventive measures for halting the spread of COVID-19 among those at the KPK building.

Fikri likewise validated that Novel Baswedan, the agency’s senior private investigator, was among those evaluating favorable for the infection that causes COVID-19

In discussion with ANTARA, Baswedan kept in mind that apart from the necessary self-isolation, he otherwise felt healthy.



” Alhamdulillah (Thank God), I feel healthy,” he stated.

Baswedan mentioned having actually tested positive for COVID-19 based on the swab test that he had just recently carried out. He had earlier developed symptoms of COVID-19, such as cough and fever.

Novel coronavirus infections at first appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019.

Since then, COVID-19 has actually infected over 215 nations and territories, consisting of 34 provinces of Indonesia, with an enormous spurt in death toll.

To tackle this COVID-19 pandemic that has triggered public health and recessions in several afflicted nations, Indonesia is leaving no stone unturned to establish a vaccine to fight the virus.

Currently, in addition to the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine, Indonesian scientists are working on a vaccine called after the nation’s nationwide flag, Merah Putih (Red and White).

The pandemic has acutely impacted Indonesia’s economy, with the country’s gross domestic product contracting 5.32 percent in the second quarter of this year.

The federal government has laid focus on the criticality of solid assistance of and active involvement from all components of society to deal with the public health and recessions.

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