Doni Monardo: People Who Travel Stubbornly Make COVID-19 Cases Increase

Chairman of the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19 Doni Monardo (Photo: Doc of the Task Force)

JAKARTA - Chairperson of the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19 Doni Monardo does not deny that there are a number of regions that are now showing a decrease in the number of positive COVID-19 patients. However, there are also areas where the positive numbers have increased. Doni hopes that the public will continue to follow the Circular of the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19 Number 4 of 2020 Concerning Criteria for Restricting People in the Context of Accelerating Handling of COVID-19.

"Several regions in the past week have shown positive graphs of decline but there are also some regions that show increasing graphs. So, I reiterate the importance of us following the rules issued by the government, in this case the SE of the Task Force," said Doni in a press conference held. aired on the BNPB YouTube account, Monday, May 25.

He confirmed that based on this circular, there are groups of people who are allowed to travel for certain reasons. Such as health reasons or some family who experience disaster or death.

However, those who got the chance to travel carelessly. This is because they must be able to show a health certificate or COVID-19 free at the checkpoints that have been provided, including at airports, terminals and stations.

"Every person traveling is required to show a certificate of having taken a rapid test within an expiration period of three days as well as a PCR test for a period of seven days at each examination site," said the Head of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB).

This examination must be followed by anyone in order to break the chain of spreading COVID-19. If people who want to travel cannot show this letter, then, they must be prepared to be returned to its original place by the security authorities.

"The joint apparatus from the transportation service, police, Satpol PP, TNI will ask you to return to your original place," he said.

It is known, until now there are a number of areas that continue to experience a significant increase in the number of COVID-19 patients.

One of them is East Java. To date, the number of positive cases in the region has reached 3,642 people. Of these, 489 patients who were declared cured or negative for COVID-19. Meanwhile, there were 2,840 people treated and those who died were 294 people.

Reportedly, as of today the government announced an additional 479 positive COVID-19 patients, bringing the total to 22,750 people. Meanwhile, the number of recovered patients has now reached 5,642 people or an increase of 240 people and 19 people who died have reached a total of 1,391 people.