Not Local Transmission, Government Confirms Omicron Case In Indonesia Imported Case

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JAKARTA - Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin confirmed that the transmission of the Omicron varicella COVID-19 case in the country was an imported case.

This was conveyed following the exposure of a janitor at the COVID-19 Emergency Hospital Wisma Atlet Kemayoran.

The Minister of Health said, N, the positive patient for the Omicron variant was infected from an Indonesian woman who had just arrived in Indonesia on 27 November.

"Now we have confirmed that the cleaning staff was caught on December 8 from an overseas traveler, an Indonesian woman who came on November 27 from Nigeria," said the Minister of Health in a press conference broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat's YouTube, Monday, December 20.

"So it has been proven that all the cases in Indonesia are imported cases, cases that come from abroad," added the former Deputy Minister of SOEs.

All cases of the Omicron variant, continued Budi, also did not spread through local transmission. The reason is that all those who tested positive for the new variant are now in quarantine.

"Alhamdulillah, all cases are quarantined, we can catch them, quarantine them and so far nothing has been spread out," said Budi.

"Therefore, we need to tighten our foreign arrivals and our quarantine so that cases coming from Nigeria, coming from London, and coming from Guyana, America can be maintained," he concluded.