Government Implements PPKM Jawa Bali, Banjarmasin Participates In Tightening Citizen Activities

Banjarmasin City COVID-19 Task Force during the PPKMl planning meeting (ANTARA / Banjarmasin City Government Public Relations)

BANJARMASIN - The Banjarmasin City Government together with the COVID-19 Task Force will implement restrictions on community activities (PPKM) to participate in PPKM on the islands of Java and Bali.

The Mayor of Banjarmasin, Ibnu Sina, said that the city of Banjarmasin has also responded to the tightening of activities on the islands of Java and Bali on January 11-25. However, the scheme is not like in Java and Bali.

Because according to the instructions of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi), said Ibnu Sina, for areas outside the islands of Java and Bali, receiving two orders regarding the imposition of restrictions on community activities, they are not obliged to implement the PSBB.

The two orders are to reactivate the COVID-19 Task Force posts in each urban village, and make efforts to prevent crowds by involving security forces and can also enforce the law.

The Banjarmasin City Government together with the Banjarmasin COVID-19 Task Force are following up on the order and collaborating so that there is no wider spread of COVID-19, PPKM is an option.

"So our choice to implement PPKM earlier is like we used to apply small-scale social restrictions (PSBK), namely the scale of sub-districts, sub-districts, villages to complexes," said Ibnu Sina as quoted by Antara, Friday, January 8.

Positive cases of COVID-19 in Banjarmasin are the highest among other regencies / cities in South Kalimantan, which as of Thursday, January 7 had a total of 4,143 cases.

Meanwhile, the cure rate was 3,754 people, died as many as 179 people.

From the previous data, there is one sub-district in the red zone, namely Pekauman Village, meanwhile, as many as 16 urban villages are in the yellow zone, the remaining 35 urban villages are designated as green zones.