Task Force: Public Space Managers' Awareness Of Prospects Decreases

JAKARTA - The COVID-19 Handling Task Force (Satgas) revealed that the awareness of health protocols (prokes) run by public space managers had decreased when the rate of COVID-19 cases again showed an increase.

"If we look at the current data, many institutions are no longer implementing health protocols. For example, in tourist places or in public places," said the Head of the Behavior Change Division of the COVID-19 Task Force, Sonny Harry B. Harmadi as reported by ANTARA, Monday, August 15.

Based on data from the COVID-19 Task Force, the decline in health protocol compliance can be seen from many tourist attractions that no longer carefully check the results of check-in through the PeduliLindung application when entering the place, finding detection or temperature checks that don't work, including hand washing stations that don't work. can be used.

This happened when the COVID-19 pandemic showed a trend in the oisitivity rate touching 11.4 percent with a bed occupancy (BOR) in hospitals of six percent. There are now more than 53,000 active cases found in Indonesia.

In fact, based on BPS data conducted from February to March 2022, public awareness has touched 91.6 percent. This means that the public already understands the risk of danger that occurs due to widespread transmission.

Therefore, the Task Force requested that compliance with health protocols carried out by the community must be accompanied by compliance with institutions or public space managers. Moreover, now the use of masks is the main key to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. The knowledge of the public to use masks or maintain a distance is sufficient to obtain from the experience of the pandemic in previous years.

He hopes that this year Indonesia can slowly endemic in accordance with the instructions given by President Joko Widodo.

"If we look at it, actually 91.6 percent of the Indonesian people already have personal awareness about wearing masks. So, when they wear masks or not depends on the existing conditions, so we encourage the community, we educate about understanding the magnitude of the risk of COVID-19, "he said.