Setting The Target For COVID-19 Cases To Fall Below 30 Thousand, Luhut Pede Is Starting To Slope Next Week

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan. (Photo: Doc. Kemenko Marves)

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has set a target for daily COVID-19 cases in the country to fall below 30 thousand. He also believes that next week the addition of cases will be sloping.

"We're trying to make sure that this case doesn't exceed 30,000 if possible. But from the last 3 days, we've seen that it's been ranging, always playing between 33, 34, 38, backwards and so on. But we see that the recovery rate has increased a lot So we hope that next week it will start, maybe if everything goes well we will be disciplined, we will start flattening," he said in the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube show, Monday, July 12.

However, said Luhut, in order to achieve an even distribution of cases and tend to be under control, cooperation with all parties must be supported. Therefore, he hopes that the community will remain disciplined in health protocols (prokes). Including the vaccination program continues to be intensified.

"We also hope that with all of our discipline, and road program vaccines, road progress, a combination of all of this compliance with the emergency PPKM, we will be able to get better," he explained.

In addition, the coordinator of the Java-Bali Emergency PPKM also claimed to have monitored community mobility and activities in Java and Bali during the period from 3 to 10 July 2021. The results show that community mobility tends to decline.

"All provinces of Java and Bali have shown a decline in mobility and community activities at the level of 10 to 15 percent of our target, actually 20 percent or more," he said.

Furthermore, Luhut said that along with the ongoing evaluation, the implementation of the Java-Bali Emergency PPKM policy was getting better. As is known that this policy is valid from 3 to 20 July.

"The implementation of Emergency PPKM in the field is also getting better. We see that in the next week the mobility of community activities will also decrease according to our expectations," he said.