Update COVID-19 As Of April 25: Tightening People's Travel Monitoring To Episenter Districts

JAKARTA - Spokesperson for handling COVID-19 Achmad Yurianto (Yuri) explained the temporary results of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Based on data as of April 25, positive cases reached 8,607 people, an increase of 396 cases.

Additional cases also occur in recovered patients. Until now, around 1,042 people have been declared cured of COVID-19. Meanwhile, cases of death reached 720 people after experiencing an increase from the previous number.

"The number of positive cases today has increased by 396, the number of recovered has increased by 40, and the number of deaths has increased by 31," Yuri said in a press conference broadcast through BNPB's official YouTube account, Saturday, April 25.

The same is true for patient under surveillance (PDP) and person under surveillance (ODP) data. Based on data from the health office received by the task force, the number of PDPs currently has increased by around 700 people.

Meanwhile, for ODP there was also an increase in cases of 9,000 from the previous number of 197,951 people. However, most were declared healthy and had finished their monitoring.

"This ODP 206,911 case is an accumulation of not all ODP status because some of them have finished monitoring and are declared cured, PDP 19,084 people," said Yuri.

With the number of positive cases still increasing, said Yuri, the public must pay more attention to sources that have the potential to spread COVID-19. At least, there are several ways to know this.

One of them, the public must know the travel history of the suspected person. For Indonesia, there are several cities that are classified as epicenter or areas that have a high number of COVID-19 cases. Among them, Jakarta and West Java.

"We must be careful to monitor everyone who has a history of traveling from the epicenter area," said Yuri, adding that the potential for transmission in the epicenter area was very high.

However, to prevent transmission from people who have a history of traveling to the epicenter area, there must be an active role from other communities or community leaders to ask them to isolate themselves for the next two weeks.

"Because it has the potential to carry this virus, therefore when traveling from one place to another even though it is still in the epicenter area, at least one has to do self-isolation for 14 days while staying at home," said Yuri.