Total COVID-19 Cases Exceed 1 Million, Minister Of Health Prepares Strategies To Flatten The Transmission Curve

ILLUSTRATION / Swab hunter in Surabaya (DOK. City Government of Surabaya)

JAKARTA - Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin prepared a number of strategies to flatten the curve of COVID-19 transmission in the country after the total COVID-19 cases exceeded 1 million cases.

The first strategy, Budi requested that all people without exception be disciplined in implementing health protocols such as wearing masks, maintaining distance, and washing hands.

"To reduce the rate of transmission of the virus. We must be very disciplined in wearing masks, washing hands, keeping our distance. This is very difficult and cannot be done alone," Budi said in a press conference broadcast on the YouTube account of the Presidential Secretariat, Tuesday, January 26.

Second, he said the Ministry of Health would strengthen testing and tracing in the community. Testing, he said, must be carried out on people suspected of being exposed while tracing is carried out so that tracing of case transmission can be carried out.

The third step, the Ministry of Health ensures that it will prepare a comfortable isolation area. Thus, exposed people can isolate comfortably without causing virus transmission in the community.

"We at the Ministry of Health will work hard. Very hard to ensure that we can carry out independent testing, tracing and isolation programs and execute them well. The goal is only one, reducing the rate of transmission or flattening the curve so that we can control the spread of this pandemic. , "said the former Deputy Minister of BUMN.

Previously reported, the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes) released the latest additional positive cases of COVID-19 today. A total of 75,194 specimens were examined today. As a result, there were 13,094 new positive cases of COVID-19.

"The total accumulation of positive cases since COVID-19 was discovered in Indonesia has reached 1,012,350 people," the Ministry of Health was quoted as saying, Tuesday, January 26.

Today's cases recovered increased by 10,868 cases, so that a total of 820,356 people recovered. Then, the positive confirmed cases who died increased by 336 people and a total of 28,468 people.

There was also the first case of COVID-19 detected in the country on March 2, 2020. At that time, two people were confirmed to have contracted this virus from a Japanese national during an event. Furthermore, this pandemic has spread throughout Indonesia with DKI Jakarta as the province with the largest number.