Surabaya Municipality Holds Mass Swab In 18 Rusun, 1,877 Pcr Test People

DOK Surabaya Municipality

SURABAYA - Mayor of Surabaya Eri Cahyadi asked the surabaya city government to hold a mass swab in 18 bills simultaneously. Mass swabs were carried out to protect their citizens from the spread of COVID-19 after the findings of corona positive residents.

"This is merely a form of concern for him (Mayor Eri) to the people living in the village to break the chain of spread of COVID-19," said Deputy Secretary of the Task Force for The Acceleration of Handling COVID-19 Surabaya, Irvan Widyanto, in Surabaya, Tuesday, May 25.

The head of Linmas Agency in Surabaya said that some residents chose to avoid when the swab would be done. However, he said, local districts and districts continue to innovate in a unique way so that the community does not refuse to be tested for swabs.

After the swab test the occupant of his little finger must be dyed like a vote, as a sign he has taken the swab test.

"So if you have obtained evidence of ink on the little finger or thumb, then residents are allowed in and out of the gate of the bill. If it's guarded here. But those who have not received the sign, residents are not allowed to go out the gate," he said.

Irvan asked all residents of the bill to jointly support the government's efforts by not rejecting the swab test. Because, this is important to anticipate the occurrence of spikes, and to stop the spread and prevention of new clusters, especially in the neighborhood.

"I ask for understanding to all, we must want to check ourselves. If someone has not and does not want to, we will not stop reminding and picking up the ball door to door," he said.

Meanwhile, Head of Surabaya City Health Office Febria Rachmanita said, to attract residents to want a swab test, puskesmas officers have been on site since 05.00 WIB. In fact, there are some locations that in the afternoon are still held swab tests.

"So there is an hour 15.00 Wib. Some have been since dawn. This is to provide opportunities for working residents. We do it at dawn so that working citizens can join the morning swab," febria said.

He said based on data obtained until 15.00 WIB, the total residents who have undergone the swab reached 1,877 people. This figure is the number of 18 bills managed by the Surabaya Municipality.

"In the future, this mass swab will continue to be done until all residents are declared to have taken the swab test. Especially for Penjaringansari Rusun we have been doing swab since yesterday. For yesterday there were 138 people. Then today there have been swab tests there are 390 people," he said.

18 bills conducted swab tests simultaneously d iantaranya namely Penjaringansari I - 1V, Mount Anyar, Pesapen, Keputih, Siwalan Kerto I - II, Jambangan I -II, Wonorejo, Romokalisari, Sombo, Tambak Wedi, Indrapura, Urip Sumoharjo, Bandarejo, Dukuh Menanggal, Grudo, Dupak Bangunrejo, Tanah Merah and Rusun Randu.

"We hope all residents do not object to the swab test. This is for the safety of the people of Surabaya. The more testing we are then we will soon be able to do treatment. So that Surabaya is immediately free from pandemics," he said.