COVID-19 Emergency Status Still Continues, Coordinating Minister For Human Development And Culture: Wait May 2023

Coordinating Minister For Human Development And Culture Muhadjir Effendy (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture (Menko PMK) Muhadjir Effendy said the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency status was continuing and will be evaluated in May 2023. "The COVID-19 emergency status is still continuing," said Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy after the Ministerial Level Meeting on the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Status and PMK's Certain Emergency Status quoted by ANTARA, Monday. April 3. - Muhadjir Effendy explained that currently there are two diseases in emergency status, first COVID-19 and both Mouth and Nail Diseases (PMK). "The ministerial level meeting today agrees that the COVID-19 emergency status is still continuing, while waiting for its development until May and waiting for directions from WHO, and that month (May) the Indonesian Government will make a decision whether the pandemic status is still continuing or can be transferred to an endemic stage," he said. Meanwhile, for mouth and nail diseases, he said, based on recommendations from the Minister of Agriculture (Mentan) Syahrul Yasin Limpo, it has been able to terminate its emergency status and be transferred to a certain State or a Special State. "This is important to reorganize the legal umbrella and the enactment imposed regulations, especially those related to the assignment from the National Disaster Management Agency," he said. Muhadjir Effendy also added that in the next ministerial level meeting it was agreed that a Joint Task Force would soon be formed that would deal with COVID-19 and mouth and nail disease. "The Joint Task Force will simultaneously deal with COVID-19 and mouth and nail diseases so that it is more efficient and can be coordinated with each other in order for the effectiveness of financing," he said.

The last point agreed in, he said, was that the Joint Task Force would later serve until June. "After June, the urgency will be reviewed, if it is deemed necessary it will continue, otherwise it will not be continued while waiting for further regulations," said Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Muhadjir Effendy.