PALU - Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian asked local governments in Central Sulawesi to improve data management for handling COVID-19.
"I also conveyed several things regarding data collection in several other areas that were not quite right, so the data entered was incorrect," said Tito Karnavian during a working visit in Palu City, quoted by Antara, Saturday, September 25.
According to Tito Karnavian, there were some areas that were wrong in including the COVID-19 conditions and situation, as a result, the determination of the level for the implementation of community activity restrictions (PPKM) was wrong.
"I know for example in Poso City, the number of cases may not be too many but the positive rate is high, the number of cases is high. I don't have PCR, there's no PCR there. So the number of testing is low, 10 people who were tested the positive is five, the positive rate is called 50 percent. If it's 50 percent, in his eyes this center is dangerous, the population is 50 percent all positive, then it must be level four, "he explained.
Not to mention, said Tito regarding the inputted data. Several regions entered data several weeks ago.
"Several regions should receive data that week, because it determines the PPKM level based on data from that week/week. Do not include data that has passed three or four weeks," he said.
"If it's been 21 days, there are only two possibilities, recovered or died. So the data needs to be cleaned after 21 days and reported as case data," continued the Minister of Home Affairs.
Tito emphasized that the data is for reporting in order to make policy, so the data must be real for that week.
In handling the transmission of COVID-19 in the Central Sulawesi region, Tito emphasized the need to prioritize areas with densely populated residential areas such as Palu, Luwuk Banggai, Donggala, Tolitoli and Poso.
The Minister of Home Affairs also asked local governments to boost vaccination in each region to build community immunity against COVID.
"Head of the Health Office should analyze which cases of COVID-19 patients who died occurred in the most areas, what age group, then prioritize the vaccination program on them, so that the mortality rate decreases," said Tito.
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