Bobby Nasution Says Medan City Government Is Executing Jokowi's Instructions On Suppressing The Transmission Of COVID-19

Medan Mayor Bobby Nasution. (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The City Government (Pemkot) of Medan, North Sumatra said it was carrying out President Joko Widodo's instructions in reducing the number of cases of COVID-19 transmission in this area.

Medan Mayor Bobby Nasution, in Medan, Sunday, explained the impact of carrying out the instructions that there tends to be no additional cases in the red zone.

But the problem that arises, he said again, is that data collection on confirmed cases of COVID-19 from a number of hospitals or general clinics is sent directly to the data center in the province.

"We admit that we can't input all the data, because the data goes directly to the North Sumatra Provincial Government. When we ask for it, it's difficult to ask for forgiveness," said Bobby as quoted by Antara, Monday, September 13.

The Mayor of Medan also admitted that the COVID-19 funding in Medan City could not be reported to the ministry, but had to be corrected by going directly to the field.

The Medan City COVID-19 Task Force report on Saturday, September 11 stated that there were 45,836 confirmed cases of COVID-19, an increase of 177 compared to yesterday, consisting of 42,938 recovered, 2,012 treated, and 886 died.

"Our data has been corrected, it has not been reported because we asked for data from the North Sumatra Provincial Government that is not available. If we use 'all record' data, we can't," said Bobby again.