Palembang Studying Full Face-to-Face Study Preparation

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PALEMBANG - The City Government of Palembang, South Sumatra is reviewing the preparation of full face-to-face learning for elementary and junior high school students in this area.

Head of the Palembang City Education Office, Ahmad Zulinto, said that everything related to the full implementation of face-to-face learning (PTM) would be reviewed, involving relevant parties in the COVID-19 Task Force, including the Health Service, TNI, Polri, and their respective representatives. school in this city.

He said there were several important points that must be prepared in order to be able to re-implement the learning system that was held during the COVID-19 pandemic at the beginning of 2022 in Palembang.

The important points of the discussion were related to how to accelerate the achievement of COVID-19 vaccination for children, which was still relatively low from the total target.

"Yes, one of them is vaccination, which currently around 35 percent of our children have not been vaccinated against COVID-19," he said in Palembang, as reported by Antara, Tuesday, May 10.

He assessed that vaccination is still important even though currently positive cases of COVID-19 have decreased and patient occupancy in hospitals is no longer available, because it is one of the reasons so that full face-to-face learning is carried out optimally without the risk of children being exposed to the virus.

"So before there is a joint decision that is through the mayor's consideration, the online teaching and learning system is still 50 percent of the total number of students in schools in the even semester of the 2021/2022 academic year which is currently ongoing," he said.

The Head of the Palembang City Health Office Fenty Aprina ensured that his party would continue to accelerate the COVID-19 vaccination by implementing a ball pick-up scheme from schools to other schools. Public health centers in 18 sub-districts will mobilize their health workers to implement the vaccination scheme.

The Health Office hopes that every school principal and staff will also disseminate information to parents/guardians that COVID-19 vaccination is important and safe so that an acceleration can occur.

Based on data from the COVID-19 vaccination recapitulation of the Palembang Health Office, it is known that 110,335 people or 64.44 percent of the 171,215 targeted people have completed the first dose of vaccination, while 60,880 others have not been vaccinated at all.

The second dose of vaccination was 83,316 people or 48.08 percent of the total target population. The amount of coverage is expected to increase by at least 60-70 percent in the near future.