IDI Asks Anies Not To Loosen PPKM DKI Jakarta

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JAKARTA - Head of the COVID-19 Task Force (Satgas) of the Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) Prof. Zubairi Djoerban advised the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government not to relax PPKM.

"In my opinion, the current PPKM, whether it's Emergency or level four, or whatever, should not be relaxed," Zubairi said when quoted by Antara, Friday, July 23.

According to Zubairi, although the positivity rate in DKI Jakarta has dropped to 25.7 percent from around 40 percent, it is still relatively high and requires serious handling from the government.

"The word is serious considering the number of COVID-19 patients who died while doing self-isolation is also quite high," said Zubairi.

Moreover, regarding the number of COVID-19 patients who died during self-isolation, said Zubairi, the data had reached 1,152 people.

"That's a very high number," said Zubairi.

Therefore, according to Zubairi, the government is right to extend the PPKM period in DKI Jakarta. In addition, the government is also right to add a place for isolation of COVID-19 patients and oxygen cylinder facilities in DKI Jakarta.

These steps are indeed needed in overcoming the pandemic in DKI Jakarta, which had experienced an emergency situation due to the limited capacity of hospitals in handling COVID-19 patients.

Until now, according to Zubairi, the government has been better than some time ago in handling the COVID-19 issue in Jakarta.

He said the COVID-19 data in DKI Jakarta showed a decline in the positivity rate over the past week, from around 40 percent to 25.7 percent, since the Emergency PPKM was introduced. The positivity rate is the ratio between the number of positive cases of COVID-19 and the number of tests performed.

"The data (the positivity rate has fallen in the past week) shows that the implementation of PPKM during the past week in DKI Jakarta is starting to show results," said Zubairi.

The head of the IDI COVID-19 Task Force also strongly appealed to the people of DKI Jakarta not to hold demonstrations against the Implementation of Restrictions on Community Activities (PPKM), so as not to risk creating a new cluster.

"So, please don't demo (demonstrate), because the data shows that Jakarta is doing well. So there is no reason to demo (reject PPKM) because the results are good," said Zubairi.