National COVID-19 job force spokesman Wiku Adisasmita has actually deplored the truth that 54 areas have actually continued to be classified as “orange zones” for 10 weeks now.
Orange zones, in the government’s danger mapping system, are areas where there is a medium risk of COVID-19 infection.
” We discover that [those regions] are being too complacent, most likely because they are not red zones [high infection risk], however keep orange zone status for rather a long time. We at the task force take a dim view of this,” Wiku said in a statement on Thursday.
According to him, Indonesia had seen a disconcerting twofold increase in the variety of orange zones as of late October. In the early days of threat zoning back in Might, 166 regencies and cities were orange zones, but since Oct. 25, the nation noted as lots of as 360 regencies and cities.
” Our typical target is to have all regencies and cities be classed as yellow or green zones. One can not be too contented about being categorized as an orange zone,” he included, referring to locations with low risk of infection for yellow zones and least expensive threat of infection for green zones.
The 54 regions are spread out across Aceh, North Sumatra, South Sumatra, West Sumatra, Riau Islands, West Java, Central Java, East Java, Banten, Yogyakarta, West Nusa Tenggara, North Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, North Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, North Maluku and Papua.
Wiku prompted the stated regencies and cities to thoroughly evaluate their COVID-19 handling and instantly increase their efforts to control the infection.
” 10 weeks is not a brief time. Therefore, we urge regents and mayors of each area, supported by their respective governors, to quickly repair their scenario. We are awaiting the 54 regions to be classified as yellow zones,” he included.
Indonesia currently has 20 regencies and cities thought about at high threat of infection, 360 at medium danger, 115 at low threat, 7 at lowest risk and 12 without infection.
Since Sunday, Indonesia had recorded a cumulative 412,784 verified COVID-19 cases with 341,942 recoveries and 13,943 deaths.
Jakarta led the tally with an overall of 106,205 verified cases, followed by East Java with 52,718 cases, West Java 36,583 cases, Central Java with 34,370 cases and South Sulawesi with 18,370 cases. (nkn)
Editor’s note: This article is part of a public project by the COVID-19 task force to raise people’s awareness about the pandemic.
