JAKARTA - Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin said an increase in COVID-19 cases had indeed occurred in 155 regencies/cities in the country. But this is called the Minister of Health can still be controlled although still have to be vigilant.
"Some regencies/cities in Java and Bali as well as outside Java and Bali a total of around 155 which have symptoms of an increase, although they are still small and still under control," Budi said at a PPKM press conference broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube, Monday, November 8.
For this increase, the government will continue to make observations. Moreover, President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) requested that districts/cities in particular in 5 provinces namely DKI Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, and East Kalimantan receive special attention and can be handled immediately if there is an increase in cases.
"Now we are observing several provinces, regencies/cities that have experienced a slight increase," said the former Deputy Minister of SOEs.
"We, at the direction of the President, are asked to immediately pay attention to regencies/cities, especially in the five provinces, namely Jakarta, West Java, Central Java, East Java, and East Kalimantan.
The Minister of Health also explained that Indonesia is currently continuing to carry out detection to prevent the entry of a new variant of COVID-19, namely AY4.2, which is now available in Malaysia. As a precaution as well as tracing, said Budi, there have been 1,500 to 1,800 genome sequence tests carried out and the results have not yet found a new variant that has entered the country.
"AY4.2 has arrived in Malaysia but has not been or has not been detected in Indonesia until now," he said.
Even so, Indonesia will later tighten border guarding, especially those directly from Malaysia. Budi reasoned that this needed to be done because many Indonesians commuted from their neighboring countries by using land, sea and air transportation modes.
"So that later we will increase the guard so that we can prevent the entry of this potential new variant into Indonesia," said Budi.
"In principle, our (cases, ed) are decreasing, we are grateful, thank God, but remain vigilant and careful, especially in facing Christmas and the new year," he concluded.
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