Bad News From Garut, Hospitals Start Full Of COVID-19 Patients Due To Eid Holidays

Deputy Regent of Garut Helmi Budiman. (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Deputy Regent of Garut, West Java Helmi Budiman stated that local government hospitals began to be full of COVID-19 positive patients with severe symptoms due to the surge in cases of the new type of coronavirus, after the Eid al-Fitr holiday of 1442 Hijri." Garut Regional General Hospital has started to be full," he said in Garut, reported by Antara, Monday, May 24.He said the case of the COVID-19 pandemic in Garut has surged after the Eid al-Fitr holiday compared to before, as evidenced by the filling of COVID-19 patient isolation rooms at Dr Slamet Garut Hospital.In addition, he continued, isolation rooms for COVID-19 patients in private hospitals in Garut, including the Tni AD's Guntur Hospital , began to fill patients since the Eid al-Fitr holiday." Now starting to comb private hospitals, Guntur Hospital has started to fill up," he said. He revealed the results of the medical team's report in the field that the spike in cases of COVID-19 transmission in Garut began to occur since a week after the Eid al-Fitr holiday." I get reports that this week there was a doubling of the positive COVID-19, last week there were 140s now 280," he said.

There was a spike in COVID-19 cases, Helmi instructed directly to the district-level COVID-19 Task Force to RT / RW to take action and immediately report if there are people who indicated symptoms of COVID-19. If you do not get medical treatment quickly and appropriately, helmi said, it is feared that the spread of COVID-19 cases is increasingly widespread and difficult to control." Immediately take action, at least report immediately because if it is not reported, some are ill unreported, untreated or not isolated, spreading will be a bigger explosion," he said. The last report accumulated cases of THE COVID-19 outbreak in Garut District as many as 9,389 cases consisting of 508 cases of self-isolation, 151 cases of isolation in hospitals, 8,325 cases declared cured, and 405 cases of death.