There Are A Lot Of Patients At The WIsma Atlet Hospital, Anies Is Asked To Reimplement The Large-Scale Social Restrictions In Jakarta

DOK Ministry of PUPR/Wisma Atlet

JAKARTA - The Public Relations Coordinator of the Wisma Atlet COVID-19 Emergency Hospital, Lt. Col. Navy M. Arifin asked DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan to reimplement large-scale social restrictions (PSBB).

This is because cases in Jakarta have soared again. The bed capacity at the Wisma Atlet Emergency Hospital is running low because every day there are hundreds of patients added.

"My advice is to tighten the PSBB first for a week, or two weeks until it slows down. So that we can focus on treating patients well. If it has ramped up, please set it up in stages again", said Arifin when contacted, Tuesday, June 15.

According to Arifin, the PSBB is an effective measure to suppress the spread of cases. Rules that prohibit restaurants from being closed for dine-in, closed public places, to the implementation of work from home (WFH) for all employees except for the essential sector that is needed to prevent spreads.

This is because, according to Arifin, current residents have started to ignore health protocols during the period when the restrictions on community activities were implemented.

"Now this must be regulated properly, office clusters must also be regulated properly. This has started to loosen up, like in Mampang, many offices have worked 100 percent from office. This means that either they are being negligent, forgetting about the pandemic, or being desperate", he said.

Seeing the capacity of the COVID-19 isolation beds and ICU which are running low, Arifin is waiting for Anies to issue a decision to tighten mobility in Jakarta until tomorrow.

"Tomorrow. It's too long if we waited for the weekend. The more people will move, the longer the tracing will take. Later, person A meets B, the tracing is getting longer, it turns out that they are positive", said Arifin.

Today, the Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies Baswedan, has extended the implementation of the micro-scale community activity restrictions (PPKM) from today until June 28.

Currently, the pandemic condition in the capital city is showing an alarming trend due to a significant spike in cases, especially after the Eid holidays.

On May 31, 2021, or to be precise, during the extension of the previous Micro-scale PPKM, active cases in Jakarta already showed 10.658 with a positivity rate of 7.6 percent from the PCR test results.

There is also an increase in the occupancy of COVID-19 patients. As of May 14, 2021, the bed occupancy ratio (BOR) specifically for COVID-19 increased significantly.

The isolation bed capacity of 7.341 is filled by 5.752 or has touched 78 percent and the ICU of 1.086 is filled 773 or 71 percent. In fact, as of May 31, 2021, the capacity of isolation beds in Jakarta is still at 33 percent and ICU at 36 percent.