Minister Of Health Budi Gunadi: Many PTM Cluster Hoaxes

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JAKARTA - Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin ensured that COVID-19 remained under control and denied that there were new clusters of spread after schools carried out face-to-face learning (PTM).

"So yesterday there were a lot of discussions or there were a lot of clusters circulating, that's actually not the case. We convey the data transparently," Budi said at a press conference after holding a limited meeting with President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) which was broadcast on the State Secretariat's YouTube, Monday, September 27.

He ensured that his party continued to carry out surveillance strategies or 3T, namely testing, tracing, and treatment to detect the spread of the virus, especially in teaching and learning activities.

The former Deputy Minister of SOEs explained that surveillance was carried out by taking samples or samples in a number of schools that carried out PTM. "From the 10 percent, we divide the allocation based on the sub-districts. So, which sub-district has more schools, it will automatically have more schools," said Budi.

Later, if there are schools with a positivity rate of more than 5 percent, they are required to conduct online learning for 14 days and the implementation of health protocols will be reviewed.

"So we make sure that we carry out surveillance at the lowest level. If there is a possibility of an outbreak exploding there, we will lock it in one school. Other schools that happen to be good will continue to run," said Budi.

This kind of method, continued the Minister of Health, will also be applied in various aspects of people's lives. So, a new life in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic can be done.

"Thus, all activities in our life, whether we want learning, work, transportation, tourism, religion, especially we must have good progress and good surveillance," he concluded.