Three Provinces Become Jokowi's Attention Due To The High Spread Of COVID-19

Laboratory examination illustration. (Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - President Joko Widodo asked the Task Force for the Acceleration of Handling COVID-19 to pay attention to three provinces where the virus spread rate is still high. He conveyed this in a limited meeting related to handling COVID-19.

"I want us to concentrate. The task force or ministry, and the TNI Polri, mainly concentrate in three provinces with high distribution rates, namely East Java, South Sulawesi and South Kalimantan," Jokowi said when opening the ratas which were broadcast on the YouTube account of the Presidential Secretariat, Thursday, 4 June.

He said, handling COVID-19 in the three provinces needed special attention so that the transmission of the virus there was immediately suppressed and decreased.

"Please, this becomes a special concern so that we can reduce the number even further," said the former governor of DKI Jakarta.

It is known, on Wednesday, June 3 yesterday, East Java experienced an additional 172 positive cases of COVID-19. This brings the total to 5,310 cases. For patients who recovered, there were an additional 292 people and the total reached 1,091 people.

While patients died, the number increased by eight, bringing the total to 437 people. For the number of patients under surveillance (PDP), there were 6,876 people, 25,081 people under surveillance (ODP), and 19,090 people without symptoms (OTG).

In South Sulawesi, on the same date there were an additional 38 new positive cases of COVID-19, bringing the total to 1,688 cases. Meanwhile, there are currently 638 recovered patients or an increase of 11 people. The number of people who died due to Covid-19 did not increase or remain 75 deaths.

Then in South Kalimantan, there were 1,033 positive cases of COVID-19 or an increase of 64 new cases on June 3 yesterday. Then the number of recovered patients reached 101 people and who died reached 91 people.

As previously reported, President Joko Widodo wanted COVID-19 tracking to be even more aggressive. However, he asked that this be done not in a conventional way but using a more sophisticated method such as in New Zealand and South Korea.

"Aggressive tracking is being carried out more aggressively using the help of a communication technology system and not using conventional methods anymore," Jokowi said when opening a limited meeting on handling COVID-19 which was broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat YouTube account, Thursday, June 4.

According to the former governor of DKI Jakarta, Indonesia clearly has to imitate other countries that utilize technology. New Zealand and South Korea, continued Jokowi, could be examples of countries that use technology to track the spread of this virus.

"As we have seen in other countries, for example in New Zealand, they use digital diaries. Then South Korea also develops mobile GPS for data, so that tracking is better monitored," he said.