Jakarta – An East Jakarta authority has actually hinted that it would buy a short-term closure of PT Khong Guan’s biscuit factory if numerous of its workers test favorable for the unique coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
” If a number of employees are confirmed to have actually been infected, the closing procedure need to be taken,” head of the East Jakarta Workforce, Transmigration, and Energy Workplace, Galuh Prasiwi, said on Monday.
The decision will be made after a monitoring and assessment group checks out the biscuit factory on Tuesday (September, 8 2020), he mentioned, including that the identities of infected workers at the factory and their specific number are not known yet.
In another development, the Ciracas Public Health Center has reported that 28 of 170 people signing up with a quick testing program at the PT Khong Guan biscuit factory on August 28, 2020 had revealed “reactive” results, Ciracas subdistrict head Mamad informed.
Those whose results were “reactive” have been asked to take swab tests. Of the figure, at least 2 workers evaluated positive for the coronavirus, he said.
Coronavirus infections initially emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan at the end of 2019, while the Indonesian government formally declared the country’s first confirmed cases on March 2, 2020.
On Monday, Indonesia recorded 2,880 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the overall tally of infections to 196,989, according to the country’s Job Force for COVID-19 Reaction.
With 2,077 individuals recuperating from COVID-19, the total healings reached 140,652, while the death toll touched 8,130, with 105 individuals succumbing to the illness over a 24- hour period.
ANTARA has actually reported on Jakarta remaining as one of the factors to the spike in the brand-new cases.
In reaction to this difficult truth, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has actually repeated his request to the Indonesia Onward Cabinet members to adopt requisite measures to halt the spread of COVID-19 infections emerging from workplace, household, and regional election clusters.
” Be cautious of office, family, and, later, regional election clusters of COVID-19 Please consistently remind about this aspect,” President Jokowi stated at a cabinet conference on dealing with health and economic recovery concerns to strengthen reformation on Monday.
Jokowi verified that COVID-19- associated prevention and mitigation efforts are mostly targeting public places. “Nevertheless, we forget the clusters of the novel coronavirus illness that I have informed about. We should be careful and cautious about the clusters,” he stated.
Jokowi said office and family clusters are instrumental for the spread of COVID-19 among members of communities, given that people might feel a sense of security and for this reason relax the application of COVID-19 preventive steps.
” In connection with family and office clusters, we feel safe in your home and workplace, so we forget to execute preventive measures as mandated by health procedures,” President Jokowi explained. (INE)
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