No Longer Provide Hotels, Karawang Government Now Isolates COVID-19 Patients In Special Rooms In The Village

Illustration - Task Force on Handling COVID-19 Karawang. (ANTARA/Ali Khumaini/dock)

JAKARTA - The Government of Karawang Regency, West Java, no longer provides hotels as isolation places for COVID-19 patients, because there are special rooms in villages as isolation rooms." Each village has a special room for isolation, namely isolation for Covid-19 patients who are not symptomatic," said local Deputy Regent Aep Syaepuloh, in Karawang, reported by Antara, Wednesday, May 25.The room in the villages can be maximized as an isolation room. So karawang government no longer rents hotels as a place of isolation.

He also said that in the future puskesmas officers should be prepared to treat COVID-19 patients. Meanwhile, the trend of CASES of COVID-19 transmission in Karawang over the last nine weeks has decreased. Acting Head of Health Office Nanik Jodjana said the number of Karawang residents who died due to COVID-19 was dominated by 50-59 year olds." An important factor in the cause of death is also the patient's comorbid or congenital disease," he said.