Cluster Of COVID-19 Offices In Jakarta Increases, Deputy Governor Riza Will Check The Cause

ANTARA / Jakarta Offices

JAKARTA - Deputy Governor of DKI Jakarta Ahmad Riza Patria admitted that his staff will find out the cause of the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in office clusters over the past week.

"Indeed, the office cluster has increased in the last few weeks. We are now checking again what is the cause," said Deputy Governor Riza at the City Hall of DKI, Central Jakarta, Monday, April 26.

Riza suspects that the increase in office clusters is caused by the transmission of the corona virus to employees who travel from home to work and vice versa. Then, there is the possibility of weakening the application of health protocols in office environments.

"We ask all the COVID-19 Task Force in every existing office, then the leaders, employees, workers, laborers, and so on, have to be even tighter, more careful," he said.

For information, in his Instagram account, the DKI Provincial Government noted an increase in hundreds of positive cases of COVID-19 in offices in just one week.

In the period 5-11 April 2021, it is said that there are 157 cases of COVID-19 in offices. Cases spread from 78 offices in the capital. Then on April 12-18, the number of cases increased to 425 people in 177 offices. This means, there are an additional 268 patients in one week.

"Even though they have been vaccinated, it does not mean that someone will be 100 percent protected from Covid-19 infection," wrote the dkijakarta account.

He explained, the COVID-19 vaccination only reduces the possibility of severe symptoms and complications due to COVID-19. The virus can still be transmitted if someone is infected.

"Therefore, implementing prokes is important. Let's protect each other, ourselves and those around us by carrying out 5M with high discipline, in order to break the chain of transmission of COVID-19," he explained.