Bogor COVID-19 Task Force Prepares Odd-Even Christmas-New Year Holidays

ILLUSTRATION/ANTARA

BOGOR - The Bogor City COVID-19 Task Force is preparing to apply odd-even vehicle number plates ahead of the Christmas and New Year's 2022 holidays to suppress the spread of COVID-19 through tightening citizen mobility.

The Head of Bogor City Police, Grand Commissioner Susatyo, said the odd-even vehicle plate option during the Christmas and New Year holidays would be implemented if the Level 3 Community Activity Restriction (PPKM) was implemented.

"We, TNI and Polri, together with the City Government of Bogor City, will carry out restrictions on mobility as appropriate for level 3 implementation, whether it will use odd-even in certain areas," he said, quoted by Antara, Saturday, December 4.

Susatyo explained that not only odd-even vehicle number plates, a number of traffic engineering policies in the Bogor City area have been prepared in the face of this year-end holiday.

The plan for implementing odd-even vehicle number plates in certain areas will be accompanied by changing vehicle traffic routes and certain situations.

"So if there is an area that is quite dense, we will engineer traffic so that the community can be tenuous and if it is loose, it is quiet, then we will reopen," he said.

All these policies, said Susatyo, will still see the situation of the development of the spread of COVID-19 and the latest instructions from the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) and other government ranks in preventing the third wave of the spread of COVID-19.

This, said Susatyo, despite the development of vaccination achievements, which has almost 90 percent of residents of Bogor City continuing to lead to "herd immunity".

Even though a number of vaccine raids in the markets of the rainy city have helped build people's awareness to get COVID-19 vaccinations.

Compared to last week's implementation, he continued, when implementing mandatory vaccine tourism areas this weekend, not even too many people were caught in an unvaccinated state.

"This means that people are starting to realize that to enter the Bogor City area, they have to be vaccinated and can prove it to the officers, but we will remain alert," he said.