PPKM Jawa-Bali Will Be Extended By Two Weeks, This Is The Reason

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JAKARTA - The government has decided to extend the period of implementing restrictions on community activities (PPKM) in Java and Bali for the next two weeks starting January 25, 2021.

The Presidential Chief of Staff, Moeldoko, said this was based on an evaluation of the development of the COVID-19 case in Java-Bali during the implementation of the PPKM, which began on January 11 to 25, which had not produced positive results.

"During these two weeks it is a hard effort to reduce. If later in the next two weeks it turns out that the level of public awareness is not yet high, the discipline is decreasing day by day and so on, surely there will be next steps that are of the same nature as to that limitation," said Moeldoko his office, Wednesday, January 20.

Meanwhile, the Director General of Regional Administration of the Ministry of Home Affairs (Kemendagri) Syafrizal said the indicator that made the government decide to extend the Java-Bali PPKM was the positive rate of specimens examined or the positivity rate that had not decreased.

"Java-Bali has been set for PPKM and the latest figures have not shown a significant reduction in the positive rate. The results of the limited cabinet meeting yesterday afternoon, (PPKM) will be extended for the next two weeks until the amgka shows a decrease or slope," Safrizal explained.

On that basis, the Ministry of Home Affairs has asked regional heads that implement PPKM policies, as well as several other regions that have begun to show high levels of indications of the spread of COVID-19 to make improvements to the handling of the corona virus in their respective regions.

"Some areas that show high indications, as well as for regions that impose PPKM are asked to make improvements, improve, in handling health, so that they quickly succeed in reducing and increasing the determined indicator numbers," he said.

To this area, the Ministry of Home Affairs asked to lower the positivity rate indicator, as well as raise indicators such as the cure rate to the care capacity of isolation patients and the COVID-19 ICU.