PKS' Spicy Satire To Luhut About The Delta Plus Variant: Maybe It's Just A PCR Business Correction

Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Panjaitan (Photo: Irfan Meidianto/VOI)

JAKARTA - Deputy Chairperson of the DPR PKS Faction, Mulyanto, asked the government not to just talk about the threat of the Delta Plus variant of COVID-19.

Because, if the government makes a wrong statement, the public will link it to the mandatory PCR test requirements, which led to the alleged business of procuring COVID-19 test kits.

According to him, an explanation regarding the Delta Plus variant of COVID-19 should be delivered by an objective evidence-based health authority. Not by the minister who is suspected of being involved in the PCR business, as is being discussed by the public.

"We have doubts about this information because the University of Oxford and WHO said that the speed of spread and the effect on human immunity from the delta plus variant is still not clear and there is not enough data," said Mulyanto to reporters, Wednesday, November 10.

The member of Commission VII of the DPR assessed that the public would be increasingly doubtful because the information on the delta plus variant of COVID-19 was conveyed by Minister Luhut Binsar Panjaitan. Where Luhut is being discussed because he is suspected of 'playing' the PCR test business.

Moreover, the end of Luhut's announcement was the obligation to test PCR tests to deal with this delta plus variant of COVID-19.

"What's the connection? So maybe it's just a justification for the PCR business," Mulyanto quipped.

Therefore, Mulyanto urges the government to be consistent in implementing research-based policies. This, he said, was so that various COVID-19 prevention programs could run effectively and efficiently.

"Don't waste the nation's resources for unnecessary things, or even just give money to rogue businessmen," concluded Mulyanto. Previously, the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said the AY.4.2 variant or the Delta Plus corona virus variant. , 15 percent more ferocious than the Delta variant.

Therefore, Luhut asked the public to be careful of the potential exposure to the new variant.

"We'll see the Delta AY.4.2 variant is also 15 percent more vicious than the current variant (Delta variant). If later we or our relatives or families get hit again or he himself gets hit, so please relax, but I don't want to," said Luhut , in a press conference via the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube, Monday, November 8.