COVID-19 Cases Get Worse, DPD Chair Suggests Government Open Aid To Neighboring Countries

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JAKARTA - The chairman of the La Nyalla DPD, Mahmud Mattalitti, suggested the government to open options for assistance from neighboring countries in dealing with COVID-19, which continues to soar.

This was conveyed in response to the statement of the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, who stated that the daily number of COVID-19 cases could reach 40 thousand.

According to him, a new scenario must be taken to anticipate the worst if the spread of COVID-19 in the country gets out of control.

"For that we need a new scenario, including perhaps opening up assistance from neighboring countries," La Nyalla told reporters in Jakarta, Wednesday, July 7.

The senator from East Java assessed that the government should already have a plan with neighboring countries to prepare for the anticipation of handling and overcoming the outbreak together in one region.

Domestically, according to La Nyalla, the government needs to tighten monitoring of the implementation of Emergency PPKM. Because until now, there are still a number of violations that can cause the policy to be less than optimal.

"Regional and provincial governments should not be bored to keep reminding residents to obey PPKM rules. For violations that are substantive in nature, sanctions need to be imposed so that all obey the rules," said the former chairman of PSSI.

La Nyalla hopes that each region will evaluate the implementation of PPKM every day. "Local governments must also get an assessment so that the suppression of the rate of human movement can really be lowered so that the termination of the transmission of COVID-19 can be significantly reduced," he said.