Airlangga Hartarto: 14,000 OTG COVID-19 Patients Are Ready To Be Accommodated In 3,700 Hotel Rooms

Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Airlangga Hartarto. (Photo: Twitter @airlangga_hrt)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Policy Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery (KPCPEN) Airlangga Hartarto said the government continues to strive to provide health facilities for positive patients with COVID-19. In particular, for those with mild symptoms or people without symptoms (OTG).

The government is indeed working hard to add independent isolation rooms for OTG patients. One of them is working with the managers of II and II star hotels in DKI Jakarta to use their rooms as isolation areas.

In addition, said Airlangga, the government has also provided self-isolating flats in Tower 5 of Wisma Atlet, Kemayoran, Central Jakarta.

"The utilization of star hotels II and III which was announced by the Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy yesterday will increase the capacity of 14,000 patients for two weeks," he said, in a virtual press conference, Friday, September 18.

The government, said Airlangga, has also increased the capacity of referral and non-referral hospitals (RS). Especially for the DKI Jakarta area, Airlangga said that the filling in several hospitals was also anticipated with the addition of existing facilities.

"In the provinces of DKI Jakarta, West Java, Bali, North Sumatra, additional potential hotels are needed and this has been filled with the facilities provided by II or III star hotels," he said.

Previously, PHRI Secretary General Maulana Yusran said that there were 27 hotels ready to be used for the independent isolation of OTG patients. The total is 3,700 rooms. However, it is possible that the number of hotels will increase, because it will also carry out internal coordination.

"We have specially prepared for DKI because it is the most urgent. So if the government says it needs around 3,000 I think it is enough," he said, in a virtual press conference at Graha BNPB, Jakarta, Friday, September 18.

Maulana said that one of the conditions the government asked for was that the hotels were spread across five capital regions, namely West, East, North, South and Central.

"These conditions can be fulfilled at this time. We just have to wait, what else is the request from the government," he said.

According to Maulana, the available hotels will not necessarily be taken all by the government. This is because the government will look at the occupancy rate or filling of the Wisma Atlet Emergency COVID-19 Hospital, Kemayoran.

"Because of this, all of these hotels will not immediately be taken immediately. But gradually. So yesterday we proposed, we use the limit, if we take 80 percent of the Athlete's House," he explained.

The details are:

1. Central Jakarta, totaling 1,605 rooms from 11 hotels. Here's the hotel name:

- Maxone Sabang

- Oria Hotel

- Redplanet Jakarta

- Losari Hotel

- Night and Day Roxy

- Maxone Kramat

- Yellow Hotel Harmoni

- Paragon Wahid Hasyim

- Big Mango Ustay

- Oasis Amir Hotel

- Trinity Hotel

2. South Jakarta as many as 5 hotels with a total of 557 rooms. Here's the hotel name:

- Pomelotel Kuningan

- POP Hotel Tebet

- Sofyan Hotel

- Kuritakeso Kemang

- GP Mega Kuningan

3. East Jakarta, as many as 4 hotels with a total of 587 rooms, namely:

- Maxone Youth

- Cawang Ibis

- Teraskita Jakarta

- Hotel Hall

4. West Jakarta with 5 hotels and a total of 602 rooms. Here are the names of the hotels:

- Maxone Signature Glodok

- Royal Palm Cengkareng

- Night and Day Bandengan

- Hotel Agusta

- Fave Hotel LTC Glodok

5. North Jakarta 2 hotels with a total of 360 rooms. Here's the list:

- Pop Hotel Kelapa Gading

- Zia Sanno Pluit