Task Force: Activities-Mobility Arrangements During Christmas-New Year Adjust Conditions

ILLUSTRATION/ANTARA

JAKARTA - The Task Force for Handling COVID-19 conveyed that the regulation of community activities during the Christmas and New Year 2022 period will adjust case data and conditions in the field.

"There will be adjustments to the regulation of community activities and mobility that are regulated according to case data and real conditions on the ground," said Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Task Force, Prof. Wiku Adisasmito, quoted by Antara, Tuesday, November 16.

Currently, Wiku said the government was discussing the details of the COVID-19 control policy during the Christmas and New Year 2022 period.

In principle, he added, the government will continue to support community activities, as long as they are carried out in a controlled manner.

Wiku said that over the past week, 20.37 percent of districts/cities, 21.9 percent of sub-districts, and 22.96 percent of villages or sub-districts nationally reported compliance with wearing masks of less than 75 percent of the total monitored community.

Regarding compliance with social distancing in the past week, there was 23.71 percent of districts/cities, 23.78 percent of sub-districts, and 21.91 percent of villages or sub-districts nationally with compliance of less than 75 percent of the total monitored community.

"Both in the Java-Bali and non-Java-Bali areas, the level of compliance per regency/city is already quite high, although there is still diversity in each island," he said.

The COVID-19 Task Force hopes that the regional government together with the established posts will continue to improve recording and reporting activities at various public facilities.

"Especially before the Christmas and New Year periods, so that any potential transmission of COVID-19 can be prevented early by the community," he said.

Separately, the Director of Prevention and Control of Directly Infectious Diseases at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Siti Nadia Tarmizi, said the government would monitor the development of the situation and condition of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia at the end of the year to decide on tightening handling policies.

"Of course, the escalation that we see is the extent of the development of the rate of transmission, the mobility of the people. If it is still at a safe level, the government will not tighten it like yesterday," he said.

Nadia emphasized that the Indonesian government adopted the concept of "gas and brakes", which is to relax when cases are under control and step on the brakes again if there is an increase in cases.