High Death Cases, Garut Apply PPKM Level 4

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JAKARTA - The Government of Garut Regency, West Java has determined that the Implementation of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) has been extended to level 4.

"This condition (cases of death) we have become a burden so that we enter a higher level, level 4," said the Daily Chair of the Garut COVID-19 Handling Task Force who also serves as the Regional Secretary of the Garut Regency Government, Nurdin Yana, told reporters. August 3rd.

He conveyed that the extension of the PPKM and the determination of level 4 were the results of the central government's decision, then the regional government only carried out central policies to prevent and break the transmission of the COVID-19 outbreak.

Reports of cases in Garut, he said, reports of deaths due to COVID-19 are still considered high, while cases of transmission during PPKM have decreased.

"What determines the center, if the trend side of exposure in Garut is relatively down," he said. Deputy Chair of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force also serves as Head of the Garut Resort Police AKBP Wirdhanto Hadicaksono adding PPKM Level 4 is not like Emergency PPKM in that there are several community activities that are allowed with continue to adhere to health protocols.

The Garut COVID-19 Task Force Team, he said, continued to improve the discipline of health protocols, especially in areas that have been designated as mandatory health protocol areas, namely the Garut urban area.

However, the main target in the current PPKM, said the Police Chief, is to reduce the death rate in Garut by limiting community activities, applying tracing, testing, and treatment as well as wearing masks, maintaining distance, and not crowding.

"We are trying the best service, serving people who are exposed to Covid so they don't enter a critical period, and vaccination is carried out in all communities," he said.

The Garut COVID-19 Handling Task Force noted that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the death cases of positive COVID-19 patients in Garut Regency reached 1,120 people from the total number of confirmed positive cases of 23,408.

Furthermore, active cases of COVID-19 patients in Garut were 421 cases of self-isolation, 152 cases of isolation in hospitals, patients who were declared cured were 21,715 cases.