No Emergency Brake, After New Year's Holidays Anies Baswedan Remains Loyal To Transitional PSBB

One of the street corners in East Jakarta (Illustration by Angga Nugraha / VOI)

JAKARTA - For the umpteenth time, the Provincial Government (Pemprov) of DKI Jakarta has again extended the Transitional Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB). This policy will be re-used for at least the next 14 days according to Governor Decree (Kepgub) Number 1295.

"We have decided to extend the PSBB for the Transitional Period until January 17, 2021," said DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan in his statement, Sunday, January 3.

Why is Anies so loyal to the Transitional PSBB? He explained based on several considerations. One of them is to reduce the number of cases related to the 2021 Christmas and New Year holidays.

"We in the government will consistently run 3T, namely testing, tracing, treatment. Meanwhile, the community carries out 3M discipline, namely washing hands with soap, wearing masks, and maintaining distance so that the effects of the spread of COVID-19 can be handled together, especially after the Christmas and Year holidays. New, "he explained.

Head of DKI Health Office, Widyastuti said that after the holiday period was over, there was an increasing trend of positive confirmed active cases. Referring to data from the Jakarta Provincial Government Health Office as of January 2, 2021, active cases in Jakarta reached 15,471 cases, an increase of 18 percent from the previous two weeks, namely 13,066 cases on December 20.

"The increase in the percentage of active cases should be alerted together, especially after the Christmas and New Year 2021 holidays, which have the potential for additional cases," he said.

In addition, Widyastuti said that decision making was also based on considerations in terms of incidence rate (IR) and the addition of vulnerable RWs in DKI Jakarta. Previously, there were 21 vulnerable RWs and increased to 55 RWs on 27 December.

"This increase occurred with the IR rate per region of 19.58, at the sub-district level an average of 25.43 and Kelurahan of 30.64," he said.