The Community Increasingly Abandoned Prokes, The Task Force Asks The Regions To Reactivate The COVID-19 Command Post In Every RT

Chairperson of the Task Force for Handling COVID-19 Doni Monardo (Diah Ayu / VOI)

JAKARTA - Chairperson of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force Doni Monardo asked all local governments to issue a budget to reactivate the COVID-19 post at all levels, starting from the RT, RW, to urban village levels.

This is because, according to Doni, the community has increasingly neglected the implementation of health protocols to prevent transmission of COVID-19. As a result, the number of new cases continues to increase every day.

"Please be pleased with the Regent, Mayor, and Governor to be able to allocate funds for the availability of posko, starting from the provincial level to at least the village level. Thank God if the budget is sufficient it can reach RT and RW levels," said Doni in his statement Tuesday, January 5.

By reactivating the posts and ranks of the COVID-19 Task Force at the RT-RW level, Doni is optimistic that active cases, which have always been increasing, can be suppressed again.

"If this can be done, then we are sure that we can suppress active cases which have been quite high so far. Because, the key to success in breaking the chain of COVID-19 transmission is the participation of the community as the front guard," he said.

Doni said there was a decrease in public discipline regarding 3M's health protocols, such as washing hands with soap, wearing masks and maintaining distance, and avoiding crowds.

Based on the results of field monitoring and the application of Bersatu Against COVID-19, it is known that only 20.6 percent of the people are obedient to wearing masks and 16.9 are obedient in maintaining distance and avoiding crowds.

This data is accumulated as of December 27, 2020, from 512 districts / cities. Monitoring is carried out on hundreds of millions of people from thousands of reporters.

In fact, according to Doni, behavior change is the main asset for all community reports to contribute in reducing the number of COVID-19 transmission.

In fact, with conditions like this, the low community compliance in wearing masks and maintaining distance is a contributor to the increase in the spread of COVID-19 which has an impact on the increase in Covid-19 cases in recent times in Indonesia.

"This is an alarm for all of us, please pay close attention to this, especially in areas where the reports (number of COVID-19 cases) that we receive regularly every day have not decreased," he concluded.