One Of The Occupants Of The Green Bay Pluit Apartment Was Exposed To Omicron, Officers Evacuated

JAKARTA - The Three Pillars of North Jakarta together with the COVID-19 Task Force picked up patients with the Omicron variant who live in the Green Bay Condo apartment, Pluit, Penjaringan, North Jakarta.

"Thank God, we want to evacuate the person concerned, so we can carry out treatment at the Sulianti Saroso Hospital," said North Jakarta Metro Police Chief Kombes Pol Guruh Arif Darmawan to reporters at the location, Tuesday, December 28.

From observations at the location, the Penjaringan Subdistrict Health Center officers were seen picking up using complete COVID-19 personal protective equipment (PPE).

Then the occupants who were infected with the Omicron variant were seen leaving the apartment. He then got into the ambulance that was available. The Omicron transmission patient was wearing only a t-shirt and carrying a suitcase.

The police chief said that currently his party together with three pillars and health workers had picked up the Omicron variant transmission patient from the 7th floor.

"We have coaxed it together with the COVID-19 Task Force. Then from the three pillars and doctors from the puskesmas," he said.

Guruh said that currently the occupants of the apartment had been brought by the COVID-19 Task Force to the Sulianti Saroso Hospital. Evacuation is carried out as an anticipation of prevention so that there is no transmission to other apartment residents.

Previously, the Ministry of Health announced that there was currently local transmission of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 transmission in Indonesia.

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.