Bogor Mayor Asks Minister For Help Investigating COVID-19 Cluster In Griya Melati

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BOGOR - Bogor Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto asked Health Minister Budi Gunadi Sadikin for help investigating the spread of COVID-19 in the fast-growing Griya Melati Housing in Bogor City.

"I have contacted the Minister of Health to pay attention to the surge of positive cases of COVID-19 in Bogor city by helping the genome sequencing process," said Bima Arya, in Bogor City, quoted by Antara, Sunday, May 23.

"According to Bima Arya, through the process of genome sequencing to detect, whether the coronavirus that spreads in Bogor city is a new variant or not," he said.

The Minister of Health, he said, has sent a team to Bogor City and has taken samples from COVID-19 cases in Griya Melati Housing. "Hopefully the process can be fast, so that the results can be quickly known," he said.

Bima explained, positive cases of COVID-19 in the Griya Melati housing cluster on Sunday today there were 46 cases, on the second day of Eid, Friday, May 14, there was only one positive case. "The movement of the spread of COVID-19 in housing is very fast. Its movement is very worrying," he said.

As of Sunday, out of 46 positive cases of COVID-19, 34 cases have been evacuated to the Bogor City COVID-19 Isolation Center in Ciawi Bogor Regency, as well as one positive case of COVID-19 with intermediate clinical symptoms because the comorbid has been evacuated to a referral hospital.

"This evacuation step is carried out, to dampen and minimize the spread of coronavirus in the housing," he said.

Bogor City Health Office is also still conducting close contract searches and has confirmed 75 people in close contact who then underwent a PCR swab test. "Currently still waiting for the results," Bima said.

Bima said that the residents of the housing even though the results of the PCR swab test are negative, but if they have clinical symptoms should be examined genome sequencing. "There should be no new variant of coronavirus," he said.

According to Bima, in anticipation of the spread of COVID-19 in Griya Melati Housing is not spread out, the housing is isolated and the activities of its citizens are limited. "The guard at the post must ensure that visitors and guests are strictly restricted," he said.