Doni Monardo Called Indonesia's Active COVID-19 Cases One Of The Highest In The World

Chairman of the Task Force (Task Force) Handling COVID-19, Doni Monardo (Photo: Doc BNPB)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Task Force for Handling COVID-19 Doni Monardo said that currently the number of active cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia is one of the highest in the world.

Active cases are people who have been confirmed positive for COVID-19 and are still undergoing independent isolation and treatment at a referral hospital.

"It has been almost a year that we have been fighting COVID-19. However, the cases are not getting lower. Our active cases are among the highest in the world today. There are 175,000 COVID-19 patients in Indonesia," Doni said in a coordination meeting broadcast on Youtube. Pusdalops BNPB, Sunday, February 7.

Doni hopes that the implementation of restrictions on micro-scale community activities (PPKM) which will take effect from tomorrow, February 9 to February 22, will be a solution to make active cases of COVID-19 recover.

"If this is not controlled by breaking the chain of transmission, then our hospital will not be able to treat patients. To be sure, our health personnel are very limited. There are quite a lot of victims from humanitarian fighters, doctors and nurses and other health workers, "he explained.

Therefore, Doni said that this micro-scale PPKM was a strategy to ward off COVID-19 at the lowest level, namely RT and RW. This strategy remains based on collaboration, agreement between all components at the village level to the RT RW level.

"We really hope that this is an effective strategy. This is the ultimate strategy, because we have taken various steps and methods," said Doni.

For information, micro-scale PPKM is carried out by considering the criteria for the control zone area up to the RT and RW levels. Regions that will implement this micro PPKM are regions in 7 provinces that have implemented PPKM previously. The zoning criteria in question are divided into green zones, yellow zones, orange zones, and red zones.

1. Green zone

Criteria: No house in one RT has a positive case of COVID-19 in the last 7 days.

Scenarios: active surveillance, all suspects tested, and case monitoring is carried out regularly.

2. Yellow zone

Criteria: there are 1 to 5 houses with positive cases during the last 7 days.

Scenario: find suspected cases and close contact tracing and then requested self-isolation under close supervision.

3. Orange zone

Criteria: there are 6 to 10 houses with positive cases during the last 7 days.

Scenarios: find suspected cases and tracing close contacts and then asked to self-isolate under strict supervision, closing houses of worship, children's play areas, and other public places except for the essential sector.

4. Red zone

Criteria: there are more than 10 houses with positive cases during the last 7 days.

Scenarios: find suspected cases and close contact tracing; perform self-isolation; closing houses of worship, children's play areas and other public places except for the essential sector; prohibits crowds of more than 3 people; limit entry and exit of RT to a maximum of 20.00 WIB; and eliminate crowd-generating social activities.

Micro PPKM is carried out through the coordination of all elements, starting from the head of RT / RW, village / lurag head, Satlinmas, Babinsa, Bhabinkamtibnas, Satpol PP, PKK, Posyandu, Dasawisma, community leaders, traditional leaders, religious leaders, youth leaders, extension agents, staff health, youth organizations, and other volunteers.

The coordination, supervision and evacuation mechanism of the micro PPKM is carried out by establishing village and family level command posts (posko). For supervision and reporting of village and sub-district posts, sub-district posts were formed. Apart from implementing micro PPKM, PPKM at provincial and district / city scale are still running as before.