How To Prevent Transmission Of Omicron Variants In All DKI Schools When PTM Is Held?

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JAKARTA - Swab tests are carried out every week on students and teachers in 10 percent of schools in DKI Jakarta that carry out Face-to-face Learning (PTM) to prevent the increase in cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

Head of the Disease Prevention and Control (P2P) Division of the DKI Jakarta Health Service, Dwi Oktavia, said this was part of "active case finding" (ACF) or "test and tracing" to detect COVID-19 cases.

"When PTM we do 'active case finding' every week, 10 percent of schools will have ACF in the form of swabbing students and teachers so they can have an idea of the potential for increasing cases, that's what we are intense about," said Dwi when contacted in Jakarta, Tuesday, January 4. .

Dwi said that each school would also be assigned a COVID-19 Task Force that monitors the health protocols of students and teachers so that they can remind each other to be disciplined in carrying out health protocols (prokes).

For study hours, he said, there are also rules to be reduced in the early stages so that study hours are shorter.

The school is also supervised and encouraged to carry out daily evaluations and improvements with the aim of improving things that are technically not in accordance with the process.

"We together with the Education Office are closely monitoring the development of cases, then every case too, if there are children who are affected, then we will definitely explore further the school and so on to conduct contact tracing as well," said Dwi as quoted by Antara.

Dwi assured that the government would not stagnate in monitoring the implementation of PTM and the steps taken would then depend on the conditions in the field.

"When a situation requires us to limit our activities, we will definitely do it, because we don't want the chain of transmission to continue," he said.