The Ministry Of Health Keeps COVID-19 Cases From Increasing During The Christmas Holidays, How To Do It?

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JAKARTA - Director of Prevention and Control of Directly Infectious Diseases of the Ministry of Health and Spokesperson for COVID-19 Vaccination Siti Nadia Tarmizi said that the Ministry of Health continues to keep COVID-19 cases from increasing during the 2021 Christmas and 2022 New Year holidays. This happens, from the PPKM indicator (implementation of restrictions on community activities), the rate of transmission is our benchmark. This means that we control how many positive cases, how many deaths, and how many people are being treated at the hospital," Nadia told Antara, Friday, 5 November. In addition, the Ministry of Health also continues to look at the positivity rate or testing rate along with data on community compliance with health protocols (prokes), such as using masks. According to him, the Ministry of Health will coordinate with other ministries and institutions so that community mobility does not increase to more than 10 percent. Like after Eid al-Fitr yesterday, a drastic increase in mobility can cause the positive number of COVID-19 to increase. "The PeduliLindung application is also our tool to see indicators of the transmission trend," said Nadia.

According to Nadia, the government needs to continue to control the spread of COVID-19 to keep it low until COVID-19 is endemic and no longer a pandemic. If it is successfully suppressed, the COVID-19 endemic will only exist in some parts of Indonesia and appear at certain times. For this reason, the government also continues to accelerate COVID-19 vaccination for all Indonesian people. Prevention of the spread of COVID-19 is important so that the pandemic quickly becomes endemic. "If later it becomes endemic in certain areas for a very long and long period of time, we can reduce cases as low as possible, meaning the positivity rate will continue to be below 1 percent," he added. .