Local Transmission of the Omicron Variant, DKI Health Office: First Time Not in Krukut, but from a 'Neighbor' Province's Lab

JAKARTA - Head of the DKI Health Office, Widyastuti, said that the local transmission case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 in Jakarta did not arise from residents of Krukut Village, Tamansari, West Jakarta. But it comes from the laboratory.

"Actually, we are local, not only in Krukut. Previously, it has been identified that there is one lab, this lab is not in DKI, a lab for PCR service referrals. The lab is in a neighboring province. I don't need to mention, it is in two neighboring provinces," she said in a virtual discussion, Saturday, January 15.

"The person concerned has a dormitory in the Jakarta area, it was also identified as the first case in DKI, before Krukut," she continued.

Widyastuti explained, for the Krukut cluster, it started with a mother who had a history of traveling out of town for a picnic.

"For Krukut, first a mother complained of pain and then was treated at the Tamansari Hospital," she said.

Furthermore, she said the mother had also received a complete two-dose vaccination shot. According to the rules from the Ministry of Health, whole-genome sequencing is carried out.

Not only that said Widyastuti, but the mother also has a history of traveling outside Jakarta, namely group picnics. But unfortunately, it is not stated to which area it went.

"This mother previously traveled outside of Jakarta. Those in a community went on a picnic outside DKI and returned, so a quick tracing was carried out on all of the mother's close contacts," she said.