Tomorrow Starts A Long Holiday, The DKI Provincial Government Asks Business Actors To Increase Number Of Officers To Monitor Health Protocols

JAKARTA - Acting Head of the Jakarta Tourism and Creative Economy Agency Gumilar Ekalaya asked business actors to anticipate the spread of COVID-19 during the long holiday at the end of October.

Starting tomorrow, October 28 to November 1, Gumilar asked all business actors, especially entertainment venues, to increase the number of officers overseeing health protocols.

"In order to anticipate the spread of COVID-19, businesses are obliged to increase the number of field officers to oversee the implementation of health protocols in their respective places of business," Gumilar said in a circular received by VOI, Tuesday, October 27.

In addition, Gumilar also requires business actors to maintain a maximum number of visitors to a maximum of 25 percent of their business capacity.

Business actors are also obliged to guard against crowds of visitors at their respective places of business.

"We ask for this circular to be of concern and to be implemented properly and responsibly," he said.

Previously, Doni Monardo, Chair of the Task Force for Handling COVID-19, said that positive cases of COVID-19 often increase during long holidays. According to him, the increase in COVID-19 cases during holidays has occurred during Eid and Eid al-Adha.

According to him, even though President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has announced during the Idul Fitri holiday that people do not travel to their hometowns to carry out the homecoming tradition, in fact people still do it.

"The President, long before Eid Al-Fitr, repeatedly chaired meetings. Finally, the government's decision was that there was no going home or not returning to the village. But after the Eid leave ends, we see an increase in cases but the number is not significant," said Doni.

Likewise during Eid al-Adha. The head of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) said the number of cases had also increased again, but not significantly.

However, a different incident actually happened during the long holiday which occurred on 23-26 August. From the data he has, Doni said that on September 1 there was an increase in cases in almost all major cities in Indonesia.

As a result, many hospitals whose utilization rates exceed 80 percent, including in Jakarta. This figure even exceeds the WHO standard figure regarding the use of beds, which is 60.

"Almost all major cities in Indonesia, even in Jakarta, have experienced an extraordinary increase. So that the ICU rooms at the COVID Hospital have reached 83 percent," he said.