Bandung Health Office Starts Random Tests Of School Students, Teachers Also Join

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JAKARTA - The Bandung City Health Office (Dinkes) has started to conduct random COVID-19 tests to students who take part in face-to-face learning (PTM) at schools to anticipate the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

Head of the Bandung City Health Office, Dr. Ahyani Raksanagara in Bandung, West Java, said so far there have been five schools whose students have been randomly tested for antigen. Apart from students, according to him, teachers and education staff were also tested by health workers.

"Now five out of 60 schools have been inspected," he said, Tuesday, January 25, as reported by Antara.

According to him, from the five schools there were as many as 220 samples consisting of students, teachers, and education staff who were tested. The result, he said, was that all the people who were randomly tested were declared negative.

As for the city of Bandung, it was found that there were six confirmed Omicron people. One of them, he said, has been declared cured while the other five are still in self-isolation.

The six people were suspected of being exposed to Omicron from local transmission because the six people had no history of travel abroad.

"Their situation is good, from the start they were asymptomatic," said Ahyani Raksanagara.

Currently in the city of Bandung there are 330 schools that implement PTM with a capacity of 100 percent.

A total of 330 schools are educational facilities that have met various criteria, ranging from health protocol facilities and infrastructure, to students who have taken vaccinations.