Surakarta City Government Ready To Relax Rules If COVID-19 Cases Drop

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SOLO - The Surakarta City Government, Central Java is ready to relax the rules for limiting community activities if the status level related to the development of COVID-19 cases in the area decreases.

"Yes, if the level has been lowered, we will relax it", said Surakarta Mayor Gibran Rakabuming Raka in Solo, quoted by Antara, Monday, August 9.

To ensure data on the Surakarta City COVID-19 case, he said, representatives from the Surakarta City Health Service (DKK) will conduct data matching with the Central Java Provincial Government.

"To get down to what level 'no' tomorrow, a special team from the Health Office will go to Semarang to clarify and check some data because it's 'not' in sync. Now our daily data is very good, both recovery data and active cases", he said.

However, Gibran is still reluctant to convey the possibility of easing a number of restrictions imposed during the implementation of the Level 4 Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) implementation.

"Tomorrow just wait for the inmen (instructions of the minister), wait for the SE (circular) to be signed. If the PPKM is already starting to show results, but don't be slack, but currently, it's still level 4", he said.

Based on data from the Surakarta City COVID-19 Task Force, in the last few days, the number of positive COVID-19 cases in the City of Solo was below 100 cases per day.

This figure is better than the previous few weeks, where the addition of COVID-19 cases in Solo averaged 200-300 cases per day. Finally, on Sunday (8/8) there was an addition of 51 cases, bringing the total active cases to 1.322 cases.

Related to this, Gibran said that he still maintains a fairly high number of tests.

"'Testing' (in Solo, ed.) continues to be the highest, I emphasize not to let our numbers get low because 'testing' is low or the number of cases is high because 'testing' is high. Cases are down but 'testing' remains high, that that holds it", he said.