Prosecutor: Covering The Condition Of COVID-19, Rizieq Shihab Blocking The Bogor City Task Force

JAKARTA - Rizieq Shihab was charged with obstructing the Bogor City COVID-19 Task Force, West Java. Prosecutors said Rizieq Shihab lied to claim he was healthy even though it was COVID-19.

The prosecutor explained, on November 28, 2020 Rizieq Shihab left the Bogor UMMI Hospital and made a statement.

"With this I do not allow anyone to disclose information about my medical examination results and the results of the swab," the prosecutor quoted Rizieq Shihab as saying when reading out the indictment at the East Jakarta District Court, Friday, March 19.

Rizieq Shihab's statement letter was made November 28 with a stamp of Rp. 6,000. Rizieq Shihab's statement was sent to the Bogor Health Office with the aim that the Bogor Health Office and the Bogor City COVID-19 Task Force would not ask for Rizieq Shihab's PCR test results.

"As a result of the defendant's act of filling out the general consent form on November 24, 2020 and making a statement letter, basically not wanting to provide information regarding the result of the examination of the defendant who was positive for COVID-19, was an act of deliberately blocking the implementation of the epidemic prevention in which the Bogor City COVID-19 task force and the Health Office. Bogor was unable to carry out one of its duties in the context of overcoming the COVID-19 outbreak, one of the ways is by using the tracing method with whom the defendant had previously contacted, "said the prosecutor.

As a result of this action, the prosecutor said that the spread of COVID-19 in Bogor City had increased. This data was obtained by prosecutors based on the determination of the Bogor City National Task Force to be in the medium risk zone (orange) as of December 1, 2020. At that time the number of confirmed COVID-19 patients was 3,398, 98 died, 540 were still sick and 2760 recovered. .