Omicron Local Transmission Found, Government Tracing SCBD To Residents Of People Who Are Exposed

JAKARTA - Local transmission of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 has been found in Indonesia. This local transmission case infects a 37-year-old man.

Spokesperson from the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi revealed, based on his travel history, this man had visited the SCBD area, South Jakarta.

Therefore, the government will conduct contact tracing in SCBD to his residence in Jakarta.

"The Health Service has coordinated with the Tourism and Creative Economy Agency to carry out tracing at the place the person concerned came to, in SCBD, and also around the residence in question, as well as tracing related activities carried out by the person concerned while in Jakarta," Nadia said in a virtual press conference. , Tuesday, December 28.

In addition, the government will also conduct PCR swab tests on several employees at SCBD. Then, tracing was also carried out on health workers who were the locations of the male PCR test exposed to the Omicron local transmission.

This local transmission found one case. Thus, currently there are 47 cases of Omicron, of which 46 cases are imported cases and 1 case is local transmission.

"We report that there is one case of local transmission of Omicron Indonesia, so that as of Tuesday, December 28, there were 47 positive confirmed cases of Omicron in Indonesia," said a spokeswoman from the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi in a virtual press conference, Tuesday, December 28.

Nadia revealed that the first case of Omicron local transmission was found in a 37-year-old man who did not have foreign travel. The patient and his wife live in Medan and go to Jakarta once a month. From existing data, they arrived in Jakarta on December 6 last.

Then, on December 17th, they visited a restaurant in SCBD, South Jakarta, and on December 19th they tested positive for COVID-19.

"The patient and his wife did an antigen test and were declared positive because the person concerned was planning to return to Medan. Then PCR was carried out on December 20 and confirmation of omicron was obtained from the laboratory on December 26," explained Nadia.

As a follow-up, this patient is in the process of being evacuated to isolate at the Sulianti Saroso Infection Center Hospital, North Jakarta.