Jayapura City Government Explores Using Ships As COVID-19 Quarantine Places

Jayapura Mayor Benhur Tomi Mano (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The Jayapura City Government will write to the Minister of Transportation to explore the possibility of making PT Pelni's ship a centralized quarantine place for COVID-19 patients.

"It is true that at this time we are exploring by sending a letter to the Minister of Transportation so that one of the ships operating under PT Pelni is used as a centralized quarantine for COVID-19 patients," said Jayapura Mayor Benhur Tomi Mano to Antara in Jayapura, Saturday. already prepared and sent immediately and hope that the assistance is approved so that residents who are positive, but without symptoms or mild symptoms will be quarantined on the ship.

Currently, he said, the Jayapura City Government only operates one location as a centralized quarantine place, namely the LPMP Kotaraja building which can accommodate around 225 people. day.

Benhur Tomi Mano stated that if there was assistance from the Ministry of Transportation to use the Pelni ship, the positive residents would immediately be quarantined on the ship.

The centralized quarantine for residents who are positive for COVID-19, he said, needs to be done to break the chain of transmission of the virus that attacks all corners of the world. Mayor. Cumulatively, positive cases of COVID-19 in Jayapura City as of Thursday (5/8) recorded 12,064 people, 9,731 people recovered, 2,086 people were treated and 247 people died. "Meanwhile, 127 people are being treated at LPMP Kotaraja," he said .