Ashanty Positive For COVID-19 Returns From Turkey, Luhut Has This Message

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment (Menko Marves), Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan gave a message to people who want to travel abroad in the near future.

The press conference broadcast via the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube channel featured Luhut giving a short message.

"Please friends, if possible, don't go abroad in the next two weeks, or wait for the next week," Luhut said on Monday, January 10.

Luhut said that currently there are 150 countries in the world that have cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19. He hopes that the Indonesian people can refrain from going abroad, let alone just a vacation.

"So that it subsides there first. So there is no need to come here with the disease," said Luhut.

In addition, for those who have traveled abroad, they should be willing to quarantine according to applicable regulations. Don't be happy when you leave, but instead harm others when you return to your homeland.

"So I beg you to refrain from going abroad and if you come abroad, you must comply with health protocols, you must go into quarantine, don't ask for dispensation from left to right," said Luhut.

It is known that one of the public figures, Ashanty, tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from Turkey for a vacation. He claimed to have a negative result but during a PCR test for quarantine, he was said to have been exposed to COVID-19. But the Ministry of Health has not provided an explanation regarding the variant of the COVID-19 omicron.