JAKARTA - The government has extended the PPKM outside Java and Bali through the Instruction of the Minister of Home Affairs Number 19 of 2022. This Inmendagri is effective from 29 March to 11 April 2022.
The Director General of Regional Administration of the Ministry of Home Affairs, Safrizal, revealed that a number of regions experienced a decline in the level of assessment, in line with the improvement in the condition of COVID-19 cases in their regions.
The number of regions in PPKM Level 1 has increased from the previous 18 regions to 26 regions. Likewise, the number of regions in PPKM Level 2 from the previous 168 regions rose to 250 regions.
"Significantly, the increase in the number of regions at Level 1 and Level 2 will automatically reduce the number of regions at Level 3 from the previous 200 regions to 110 regions, and there are no regions at Level 4," said Safrizal in his statement, Tuesday. , March 29.
Safrizal said there were several changes to the activity rules in the Minister of Home Affairs Number 19 of 2022, including the regulation of sports activities which are currently allowed to accept live spectators in stadiums with a maximum capacity of spectators according to the level criteria in each region, which is 50 percent for Level 3.75 percent. for Level 2, and 100 percent for Level 1.
Furthermore, Safrizal revealed that increasing vaccination capacity in each area has proven to be able to reduce the transmission rate of the corona virus.
"We must continue to push this position in the hope that more areas will be at Level 1. This means that the immunity of the community will be increasingly formed and the community will be able to carry out normal activities, although without reducing the meaning of vigilance to continue to apply health protocol discipline," he explained.
Therefore, he hopes that the policy of accelerating vaccination, plus the requirement for booster vaccines in the implementation of Lebaran homecoming, can encourage people to vaccinate, especially for the type of booster vaccine whose current achievement is still below 10 percent nationally.
"We continue to encourage the Regional Government and all levels of Forkopimda to innovate and collaborate so that vaccination achievements continue to increase. With vaccination achievements that continue to increase, it is parallel with efforts to accelerate national economic recovery by increasing community economic activity," he added.
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