Tangerang City Government Turns Operational Cars Into COVID-19 Body Transport Services

PHOTO VIA ANTARA/Tangerang City Government OPD car converted into a COVID-19 corpse transport car

TANGERANG - The Tangerang City Government, Banten, has changed service operational cars belonging to regional apparatus organizations (OPD) into hearses due to the surge in COVID-19 cases.

Tangerang Mayor Arief R Wismansyah said the transfer was intended to assist the mobility of the corpse evacuation team, especially COVID-19 patients from hospitals or at home.

"For the evacuation of bodies to the Selapajang TPU, both COVID-19 and non-COVID. So we have added the fleet so that the handling of the bodies is faster," he said, quoted by Antara, Thursday, July 15.

The mayor added that currently the Tangerang City Government has as many as nine hearse vehicles under the command of the Housing and Settlement Service (Perkim).

"In addition, three units of operational cars have been converted into hearses. One unit is from Bapenda, one unit is from DPMPTSP and a secretariat car is from the Perkim Office," he said.

Arief stated that all operational cars that were converted as hearses would be sterilized once they have been used, so that they could be reused as public service cars.

"We all hope that the pandemic will pass soon," he said.

Mayor Arief appealed to stay at home if you don't have urgent business along with the increasing number of cases currently happening.

Based on data from the covid19.tangerangkota.go.id page on July 15, 2021 at 13.00 WIB, for confirmation, 2,857 people were treated, 264 people died and 12,061 people recovered.