COVID-19 Transmission In Bogor Regency Reaches 86 Cases Per Day, Regency Government Prepares To Face Spike In Cases

BOGOR - The Regent of Bogor, West Java, Ade Yasin, as well as the Chair of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, appealed to the public to be vigilant because the transmission of COVID-19 in his area has now reached 86 cases per day.

"We are preparing strategies starting from prevention efforts to countermeasures to deal with this spike (of COVID-19 cases)," he said in Cibinong, Bogor, West Java, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, January 25.

Daily COVID-19 transmission cases in Bogor Regency have experienced a sharp spike since January 18-19 2022, to 42 cases and 43 cases, from the previous 2-11 cases per day.

Ade Yasin said the prevention efforts he had prepared included accelerating vaccinations, strengthening the task force, to testing and tracing COVID-19 cases.

Then, Ade Yasin ensured the readiness of integrated isolation places (isoters), hospitals, health centers, to re-optimize emergency services at the village level as an effort to overcome the third wave of COVID-19 transmission.

According to him, the surge in COVID-19 cases in the last two days was dominated by people with Bogor Regency ID cards who live in other areas. The case was recorded in Bogor Regency as recorded by the New All Record (NAR) system.

Ade Yasin said that of all COVID-19 cases in Bogor Regency, only one was detected as the Omicron variant, which was suffered by a resident from the Dramaga District on January 6, 2022, and is now negative.

Currently, the Bogor Regency Government has implemented a level two Community Activity Restriction (PPKM) since January 4.