New PPKM Effects Will Be Seen In The Fourth Week

JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the Task Force (Task Force) Handling COVID-19 Wiku Adisasmito said the effect of restricting community activities was often seen in the fourth week of implementation.

This is based on previous experiences with restrictions, such as large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) or the imposition of restrictions on community activities (PPKM).

He then gave an example of restrictions in DKI Jakarta, last September, when Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) were tightened for four weeks, the effect was only felt in the fourth week. This trend also occurred in the first and second volumes of PPKM.

"So the first three weeks it still goes up but as soon as the fourth week it starts to fall," Wiku said in an online press conference broadcast on YouTube, Wednesday, February 10.

According to him, this is due to delays in sending data from each region. Thus, the impact of implementing restrictions cannot be immediately known in the same week after they are imposed.

"There must be a delay that cannot be immediately (known, ed). Such a policy because the disease is gradual to cause symptoms, the impact will definitely be delayed but the effect is long term, medium term, definitely big," he said.

"And if we continue, then we should harvest a decrease in cases," he added.

Previously reported, the COVID-19 Handling Task Force claimed that the implementation of restrictions on community activities (PPKM) in the fourth week showed positive results such as a decrease in active cases of COVID-19 and a decrease in the number of filled beds.

If at the end of the third week of PPKM implementation the percentage of active cases reached 16.24 percent, now in the fourth week the percentage of active cases reached 15.23 percent.

Meanwhile, regarding the filling of beds at the COVID-19 referral hospital, he said that it continued to decline after the PPKM was implemented. In fact, the total decline to date has reached 10.21 percent.