The Micro-Scale Community Activity Restrictions Gets Extended Until May 3, It Covers 25 Provinces

Chairman of the Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery (KCP-PEN) Airlangga Hartarto (screenshot)

JAKARTA - The government has extended the implementation of restrictions on micro-based community activities (PPKM) starting tomorrow, April 20 to May 3, 2021.

Chairperson of the Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery (KCP-PEN) Airlangga Hartarto said that the extension of the micro-scale PPKM applies with the expansion of provincial coverage.

"Based on the results of the evaluation, we extended the micro-scale PPKM. The expansion was based on the parameter of the number of active cases, adding 5 provinces, namely West Sumatra, Jambi, Bangka Belitung Islands, Lampung, and West Kalimantan", said Airlangga in the Presidential Secretariat Youtube broadcast, Monday, April 19.

That way, there are 25 provinces that implement the micro-scale PPKM. Among them are DKI Jakarta, West Java, Banten, Central Java, East Java, Yogyakarta Special Region, Bali, North Sumatra, East Kalimantan, and South Sulawesi.

Then, South Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, North Sulawesi, East Nusa Tenggara, West Nusa Tenggara, North Kalimantan, Aceh, South Sumatra, Riau, Papua, and the five new provinces added today.

Meanwhile, in the evaluation, Airlangga said that the fifth stage of the micro-scale PPKM on April 6 to 19 had improved. Active cases per April 18 reached single digits or as much as 6.6 percent of the total cases.

"This is an improvement compared to last month. In February, the active cases were 16 percent", he said.