Regional Police Metro Says Citizen Mobility Affects The Number Of COVID-19 Positive Cases

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JAKARTA - Regional Police Metro Jaya emphasized that the ups and downs of community mobility were very influential with the positive cases of COVID-19 in Jakarta. Because, if mobility increases, positive cases also increase and vice versa.

"The mobility number and the daily number of additional cases are very visible how the correlation between mobility greatly affects the daily development of COVID-19 cases", said Director of Traffic of the Polda Metro Jaya Commissioner Sambodo Purnomo Yogo to reporters, Tuesday, August 3.

This assessment is not without basis. During the implementation of the three Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) policies, there was an increase in mobility during the implementation of Level 4 PPKM.

With this increase, it is feared that it will have an impact on the spread of COVID-19 cases. Because every time the mobility of residents increases, a week later positive cases of COVID-19 also shoot up.

"This figure proves that when mobility increases, then the number of COVID-19 a week later will definitely increase. When there is a decline then a week later this number will decrease", said Sambodo.

Previously reported, the Polda Metro Jaya noted the ups and downs of mobility during the implementation of three types of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) policies in the Jakarta and surrounding areas.

Based on the data, at the beginning of the implementation of all PPKM policies such as micro, emergency, and level 4, there was a decline. But, if each is compared, then, there is an increase in mobility.

The decline in community mobility every week is quite large. Where, micro PPKM recorded a decrease of 39 percent in the second week of implementing the policy.

Then, emergency PPKM also decreased by 52 percent during the three weeks of implementing the policy. The same thing happened in two weeks of implementing the Level 4 PPKM policy.

However, if all three types of PPKM data are compared, it appears that there is an increase in community mobility.

One example is when implementing emergency PPKM with micro PPKM, there is an increase in community mobility by 7 percent.