Yogyakarta DPRD Asks For Intensified Control Of Health Protocols

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YOGYAKARTA - Commission D of the Yogyakarta City DPRD asked the local government to intensify control and enforcement of health protocol rules in the community to prevent potential transmission of COVID-19.

"Since PPKM dropped to level two, many residents consider the current conditions to be back to normal. This is an important thing for mutual concern," said Deputy Chairman of Commission D of the Yogyakarta City DPRD, Krisnadi Setyawan, quoted by Antara, Friday, November 26.

He is worried that if more and more residents think that conditions have returned to normal and then ignore the health protocols, cases in the city of Yogyakarta will explode again.

"Moreover, in the near future, Christmas and New Year holidays are already in. There are a lot of anticipatory steps needed to prevent cases from exploding with conditions getting worse," he said.

Therefore, continued Krisnadi, controlling and enforcing health protocols is an important step that must be carried out again.

"People need to understand that if they want stable economic conditions, there must be a brake. It can't just be released as if nothing happened," he said.

Krisnadi also mentioned the emergence of positive cases of COVID-19 in schools that run limited face-to-face learning (PTM).

"Supervision of health protocols in schools is also important even though in general schools are quite disciplined in carrying out health protocols," he continued.

Nevertheless, Krisnadi continued, sometimes schools also face pressure from the environment and students' parents to relax more restrictions when PTM is limited.

"For example, children aged less than 12 years have not been vaccinated but have returned to school because the community is worried about learning lost. From us, as long as the implementation is according to health protocols, it's okay," he said.

Meanwhile, Yogyakarta Deputy Mayor Heroe Poerwadi said the Yogyakarta City Government made consistent efforts to ensure cases were under control.

"In the last few days, there has been a decrease in cases, although there has been a drastic increase. However, the general trend has decreased. To ensure that cases are down, we conduct random checks aimed at students to ASN who provide direct services to the community," he said.

This random check was carried out to ensure that the decline in cases in the city of Yogyakarta was a fact and that there was no transmission in the community.

However, an examination of students at the school found seven cases of COVID-19 taken from more than 1,500 samples.

"I think limited PTM is still safe because there is no widespread transmission in the classroom or school and health protocols are also running well," he said.

He also asked the public to continue to carry out health protocols in a disciplined manner as a way to prevent transmission and complete vaccination up to two doses.