If Positive Cases Of COVID-19 Are Still High, The Government Will Limit Community Movement

Spokesperson for the Task Force (Task Force) Handling COVID-19 Wiku Adisasmito. (Photo: Doc. BNPB)

JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the Task Force (Task Force) Handling COVID-19 Wiku Adisasmito said the government has opened options for limiting people's mobility if positive cases of COVID-19 continue to increase. This restriction is deemed necessary to prevent transmission of the virus in the community.

"The last step to take if the positive cases are still high is to limit the mobility of the community," Wiku said in a press conference broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat YouTube account, Thursday, December 31.

According to him, uncontrolled community mobility during a pandemic has the potential to cause an increase in the transmission of COVID-19 cases.

"Therefore, it is hoped that this mobilization limitation can reduce the transmission that occurs. Limiting or prohibiting the socio-economic activities of the community in an area is an aspect that we must do in line with the ups and downs of COVID-19 cases," he said.

Although he mentioned opening the possibility of limiting people's mobility, he said this would be a last resort. This is because the government is still taking anticipatory steps in the form of tightening and enforcing the discipline of health protocols and 3T or testing, tracing, treatment.

"This 3T effort continues to be strengthened and this is the government's effort to ensure that the community and its positive close contacts can be detected more quickly and also receive health care according to standards, so that it can reduce the number of active cases and reduce the death rate and also increase the cure rate. "he said.

Previously reported, the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) released the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 today. A total of 57,800 specimens were examined today and the results were 8,074 new positive cases of COVID-19.

"The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 743,198 people," the Ministry of Health was quoted as saying, Thursday, December 31.

Today's cases increased by 7,356, so that a total of 611,097 people recovered. Then, the confirmed positive cases who died increased by 194 people and a total of 22,138 people.

The province with the most new cases is in DKI Jakarta with 2,022 new cases and a total of 183,735 cases. DKI Jakarta is also the province with the most accumulated cases in Indonesia.

Followed by West Java which has 1,024 new cases with a total of 83,579 cases. Central Java has 939 new cases and a total of 81,716 cases. Then, East Java has 935 new cases and a total of 84,152 cases.

The province with the most cases recovered today belongs to DKI Jakarta with an increase of 1,970 recovered cases. Followed by West Java with an increase of 1,227 recovered cases, South Sulawesi with an increase of 955 recovered cases, and East Java with an additional 757 recovered cases.

Then, none of the provinces reported having no new cases today. The province that reported new cases under 10 was Aceh with 4 new cases.

In addition, the number of specimens examined reached 7,355,174. In detail, a total of 7,229,779 specimens were examined using real time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and 125,395 using molecular rapid tests (TCM).

Finally, for the number of people suspected of having contracted COVID-19 or who are currently categorized as suspected cases, it was recorded at 68,316 people. Currently, 510 districts / cities from 34 provinces have COVID-19 cases.