Other Countries Start Implementing The COVID-19 Endemic, Luhut: We Shouldn't Be Lazy Joining In

PIXABAY ILLUSTRATION

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said that currently a number of countries had begun to loosen restrictions on activities.

In fact, the country has begun to implement the transition from the COVID-19 pandemic to endemic. Endemic is an epidemic that continues to occur but is limited to a certain area.

Unlike the pandemic, which requires special tightening, endemic policies are implemented to return people's lives to normal conditions and treat COVID-19 as an ordinary disease.

Countries that have implemented the transition to endemic include the UK, Denmark, and Singapore. However, Luhut did not want Indonesia to implement the policy in a hurry.

"We don't need to be talkative like this country," said Luhut in a virtual press conference, Monday, February 21.

Luhut said the government would make this transition in stages, stages and continue based on data on health, economic and socio-cultural indicators, as well as continuing to apply the precautionary principle.

"Proposed concepts, criteria and indicators for pandemics to endemic from time to time will continue to be refined with experts and experts in their fields," he said.

Currently, the government is still implementing the PPKM policy to control the pandemic. The PPKM in Java-Bali was again extended for another week, from February 22 to 28.