Minister Of Home Affairs Asks Local Governments To Always Update COVID-19 Data

Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian/PHOTO VIA ANTARA

JAKARTA - Minister of Home Affairs Tito Karnavian asked the local government to improve and update the COVID-19 data so that it does not overlap with old data.

According to several local governments, a spike in active COVID-19 cases, according to Tito, occurred due to old data being inputted.

"Please pay close attention to the data, because the data we found in several areas, positive case data or confirmed data, turned out to be a lot of old data being uploaded", Tito said, quoted by Antara, Friday, September 3.

Tito said there was a finding in one of the areas where the death rate from COVID-19 had soared. After being traced, he continued, the figure was an accumulation of the death toll the previous week.

"After we looked at it, it turned out that the death rate was accumulated from the previous few weeks, not the real one this week", he explained.

The input data will determine the direction of the Government's policy in handling COVID-19.

If there is an increase in the number of deaths and positive cases due to incorrect data input, he said, it will have an impact on the implementation of the level of implementation of community activity restrictions (PPKM) and their regional zones.

"If the old data is entered, the policy will be wrong, the number of active cases that were entered three weeks or four weeks ago resulted in a large number of active cases. So in the end, all of them wanted to be withdrawn to centralized isolation (ed.), even though the number may not be that much", he said.

Therefore, the Minister of Home Affairs asked every regional head and his staff to always coordinate in entering the latest and real data related to COVID-19 cases.