The Bali Claims Health Office Has Fulfilled 5 Conditions For Endemic

DENPASAR - Head of the Bali Health Service, I Nyoman Gede Anom, said that Bali has met the requirements of the World Health Organization (WHO) to become endemic.

"There are five conditions that must be met to become endemic. And these five conditions have been fulfilled by Bali," said Anom when contacted Saturday, June 11.

The first requirement for endemic is that the transmission rate of COVID-19 is below one percent.

"Bali has 0.49 percent. For example, one person infects one person and one person infects two people. We are even 0.49 (percent) which means that on average we don't infect. That's the first one," said Anom.

Second, the required positivity rate is below 5 percent. Meanwhile, Bali is called Anom below 2 percent.

“We are almost always below two percent these days. The WHO requirement is below 5 percent, we have already exceeded that," he explained.

Third, the treatment of COVID-19 cases is below 5 percent. Bali according to Anom is only 0.12 percent

"Then the fourth WHO death rate has to be below three percent. For Bali itself, we only have a 0.02 percent death rate, very little," he said.

The fifth condition is related to activity restrictions. Bali is currently entering PPKM level 1.

"Those are five conditions. If Bali has met the five conditions, it is already endemic in Bali," he said.

For the endemic status, Anom continued, the central government determined it nationally.

"The first is the WHO that determines and the second is the central government. If in Bali it has met the five requirements. We have entered a transition period to become endemic, we just have to wait," he said.