NTB Police Chief Inspector General Iqbal: We Must Prepare Concrete Steps To Prevent The Nataru Cluster

NTB Police Chief Inspector General Mohammad Iqbal. (ANTARA/HO-Polda NTB Public Relations)

MATARAM - The West Nusa Tenggara Police Chief, Inspector General Mohammad Iqbal, wants the provincial government to immediately prepare concrete steps to prevent the emergence of new clusters of COVID-19 during the 2021 Christmas and 2022 New Year (Nataru) celebration periods.

"We have to prepare concrete steps that must follow up the Minister of Home Affairs Number 62 of 2021," said Inspector General Mohammad Iqbal in Mataram, Wednesday, December 1.

Iqbal said he had delivered such a statement in a virtual activity through an online application with all regional officials and stakeholders in NTB who are responsible for preventing the transmission of COVID-19.

According to Iqbal, this concrete step must immediately be described in a regulation with a concept that summarizes the entire situation and needs of each district/city.

However, he reminded that the product of the regulation remains fundamental to strengthening the Instruction of the Minister of Home Affairs (Inmendagri) Number 62/2021 concerning the Prevention and Control of COVID-19 during the 2021 Christmas Celebration and 2022 New Year.

For this reason, the implementation of health protocols to prevent the transmission of COVID-19 must be the most important thing. Tourist objects, entertainment centers and places that have the potential to cause crowds, are the subject of attention. The regulation will also regulate surveillance in every corridor at the entrance to the NTB region. Iqbal said, there must be a special strategy applied.

"The point is, we don't want the existing situation to develop into a new cluster. We will press the maximum so that there is no Nataru cluster," he said as quoted by Antara.

To that end, Inspector General Iqbal encouraged the Governor of NTB Zulkieflimansyah to immediately complete it and implement it in the form of a circular letter.

"If the circular has been issued, the district/city has one narrative, later we will disseminate it. It is important to do so that things don't appear that we don't want," he said.