A Worker Demonstrating At The Riau Islands DPRD Is Positive For COVID-19, Officers Have Difficulty In Tracing

Labor activist from Batam holding a demonstration (Photo via ANTARA / Nikolas Panama)

BATAM - Slowly but surely, worries about the emergence of demonstration clusters are starting to become apparent. A demonstrator who had held an action against the Job Creation Law at the Riau Islands Provincial DPRD, was confirmed positive for COVID-19. The worker has the initials D, a labor activist, a resident of Batam. He had joined hundreds of students who held a demonstration at the Riau Islands Provincial DPRD a few days ago. Head of the Riau Islands' COVID-19 Handling Task Force, Tengku Said Arif Fadillah, at the Tanjungpinang Regional Building, Ahaf, said, D was quarantined at the Special Hospital for Infection on the Island. Galang, Batam, after it was found out that he had contracted COVID-19. "Health workers are still tracking people who have close contact with D for swab tests," he said as reported by D and a number of labor activists from Batam were examined using the rapid test method. (rapid test) when going to the Kepri DPRD Office on Thursday (8/10) After the rapid examination, health workers detected D and SB reactive COVID-19. Then the health worker took a swab test from the bodies of both of them and the results were D positive for COVID-19. 19. "D was then taken to Galang Hospital for treatment," he said. Arif said it was difficult for health workers to detect anyone who had close contact with D because the crowd was very busy. He appealed to students and workers to voluntarily come to the Riau Islands General Hospital for a rapid test. "We hope that a similar incident will not happen again because crowds that do not comply with health protocols have the potential to cause COVID-19 transmission," he said.