PKS Party Politician Proposes To Pull The COVID-19 Emergency Brake Not Only In The Red Zones

Illustration-Health workers are doing PCR tests (Photo: DOK ANTARA)

JAKARTA - COVID-19 cases in Indonesia have exploded again with an increase of almost 10.000 in one day, on Wednesday, June 16. Active cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia reached 120.306 people.

This was revealed in the Ministry of Health's data published on Wednesday. The data revealed that there were 9.944 new cases as of today, bringing the total past 1.937 million.

Responding to this spike, a member of Commission IX of the Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR RI) Kurniasih Mufidayati advised the government to immediately restrict human mobility. For example, the re-implementation of the Large-scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) and stricter implementation supervision.

Of course, taking into account the areas affected by the rapidly increasing number of positive cases of COVID-19. Not only in the red zones but also around them.

"Pull the emergency brakes not only in the red zones but also in the surrounding areas, which will allow inter-regional mobilization to and from the red zones", said Mufida, Thursday, June 17.

In addition, she said, restrictions on community mobility must also be applied in areas that data have a high occupancy rate of COVID-19 patients. This method is expected to reduce the rate of the spread of COVID-19 cases which is getting faster and more widespread.

"And areas where the Bed Occupancy Rate (BOR) is already high, exceeds the WHO standard threshold, which is 60 percent (it is necessary to restrict people's mobility)", said the PKS Party politician.