Medan Mayor Bobby Nasution Reminds Residents To Celebrate Cap Go Meh With Strict Health Protocol

MEDAN - Medan Mayor Bobby Nasution appealed to people of Chinese descent in the area to celebrate Cap Go Meh in a series of Chinese New Year celebrations 2573 Khongzili simply by implementing strict health protocols.

"Follow health protocols. Reduce unnecessary activities that threaten health," he said in Medan, North Sumatra, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, February 15.

Bobby Nasution said the importance of implementing health protocols in an effort to prevent COVID-19 cases from soaring amid the transmission of a new variant, Omicron.

Moreover, he said, currently the City of Medan has been upgraded to Level 3 Implementation of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM), in line with the high number of COVID-19 cases in the local area.

The determination of the PPKM status is stated in the Instruction of the Minister of Home Affairs Number 11 of 2022 dated February 14, 2022.

"Of course, the level 3 appeal is not just an ordinary number. This needs attention from the entire community of Medan City. Reduce unnecessary activities," he said.

Based on data from the Medan City COVID-19 Task Force (Satgas), COVID-19 cases in the area experienced an addition of 777 people as of Tuesday, bringing the accumulation up to 52,726 cases.

The number of recovered cases increased by 131 people, bringing the accumulation to 47,970 cases and zero deaths.