Children's COVID-19 Cases Increase Sharply In Jakarta, Parents Are Asked To Take Extra Care

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JAKARTA - Member of the House of Representatives Commission IX Kurniasih Mufidayati is concerned about the sharp increase in cases of COVID-19 in children in DKI Jakarta.

Parents are asked to be more focused and attentive in taking care of their children to always pay attention to health protocols, and maintain nutritional intake for their children.

“Children's COVID cases are increasing sharply and this is a concern for all of us. Moreover, children are at high risk of exposure,” said Mufida to reporters, Friday, June 25.

Based on the corona.jakarta.go.id website, as of Wednesday, June 23, the accumulated cases of children have reached 59,741 cases. With details, 46,330 cases in children aged 5-18 years, 10,726 cases in children aged 1 - 4 years, and 2,685 cases in children under 1 year.

Due to the rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases, Mufida invites parents to limit their family members from doing many activities in open public spaces such as malls, markets and tourist areas.

Because, according to him, even though they travel with masks, children are still very vulnerable when moving. And certainly not strict in implementing health protocols.

"The virus spreads very quickly. Moreover, the new variant of COVID-19 Delta is currently causing extra concern because it has the potential to attack children," he said.

"The data also shows that the Delta variant attacks patients with an age range under 18 years in a number of areas experiencing a surge in COVID cases, including in Jakarta," said the Jakarta legislator.

Moreover, on Thursday, June 24, the COVID-19 case in Jakarta had broken the daily case record with 7,505 cases. Unexpectedly, 15 percent or 1,112 cases of Covid were suffered by children.

"From day to day, there are currently increasing cases of child COVID. Last Thursday there were 830 cases of children aged 6-18 years and 282 cases were children aged 0-5 years. It is suspected that the children affected by Covid-19 came from family clusters and were infected from their parents," explained the Chairperson of the Women and Family Resilience Division of the PKS DPP.

For this reason, Mufida hopes that parents will be more vigilant and take better care of their children as the number of child deaths due to the corona virus increases. Where cases of COVID-19 children in Indonesia reached the highest case rate in the world.

“Indonesia has been through the Covid pandemic for more than a year. However, the handling of COVID-19 has not been handled properly. Even the central government's implementation of Micro PPKM has not proven that it can slow the rate of COVID cases in Indonesia. This is a serious case,” said Mufida.