JAKARTA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin conveyed that this year's Ramadan 1443 Hijri holiday will be one of the determining factors for Indonesia to enter the COVID-19 endemic period.

"This holiday, this Ramadan, will determine whether it will become endemic or we are still in a pandemic," said the Vice President on the sidelines of his working visit to Surabaya, Thursday, March 31.

The vice president explained that the government plans to invite the public to go home during this year's Ramadan. The condition is that travelers must have received a booster or booster vaccine.

The vice president reminded residents to maintain health protocols during the homecoming.

"Even though he said it was not so dangerous, in that area, there are a lot of old people, who are elderly. There are a lot of people who are vulnerable, a lot of comorbidities, a lot of children," he explained, quoted from Antara.

He also asked the local government whose territory is the destination of travelers to be prepared to accept the possibility of going home this year, if there is no extraordinary spike.

The vice president hopes that going home can be carried out by the community and there will be no spike in post-Eid cases, so that Indonesia can hope to enter a post-Ramadhan endemic period.

"So we can return to normal," he said.


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