Deputy Of House of Representatives Azis Syamsuddin Asks The Ministry Of Health-Police To Anticipate Fake COVID-19 Tests

JAKARTA - Deputy Of House of Representatives (DPR), Azis Syamsuddin, supports the government's steps to tighten travel requirements to anticipate the impact of the homecoming phenomenon early.

Azis encouraged the commitment of all parties to implement these rules to prevent an increase in COVID-19 cases due to the high mobility of the community. So the rules can run effectively.

"The regional government and all related stakeholders, such as security forces to public transportation service providers, must pay attention to harmony and not conflict with the Addendum to the Circular for the COVID-19 Handling Task Force", said Azis Syamsuddin in Jakarta, Friday, April 23.

The government has officially tightened travel requirements starting D-14 and D+7 for the period of prohibiting homecoming, namely on April 22 until May 5 and May 18-24 2021 as stipulated in the Addendum to the Circular Task Force for COVID-19 Handling No. Eid Al-Fitr 2021 Homecoming and Efforts to Control the spread of COVID-19 during Ramadan.

The Golkar politician reminded the government and the regional government to socialize the rule massively by utilizing various existing media. So that people can anticipate not to go home for Lebaran.

"We encourage the Ministry of Health and the Police to anticipate the circulation of fake COVID-19 test results during the tightening of the homecoming ban", said Azis.

Azis appealed to the public to comply with the rules for eliminating the Eid homecoming, if necessary, discouraging him from returning to his hometown. Because, he said, this could endanger themselves and their families, considering that the elderly category is very vulnerable to being infected with the COVID-19.

"The public needs to pay attention that based on data from the COVID-19 Task Force, the death rate in Indonesia is dominated by the elderly with a percentage of 48.3 percent", said Azis Syamsuddin.

Previously reported, the National Police would deploy intelligence members to oversee hospitals and laboratories. The goal is to prevent the naughty practice of buying and selling negative COVID-19 letters.

"Our intelligence is ready to monitor (hospitals and labs)", said Head of Public Relations of the National Police, Inspector General Argo Yuwono in his statement, Friday, April 23.

The deployment of intelligence members is also a follow-up to the government policy which prohibits people from homecoming.

The National Police has also implemented a insulation scheme. This tightening was carried out from April 22 to May 5, 2021 and the period May 18 to May 24, 2021.

In addition, Argo hopes that all parties follow all existing rules to prevent transmission.

"Hopefully there will be no (letter game of COVID-19)", said Argo.