JAKARTA - Spokesperson for the COVID-19 Task Force Wiku Adisasmito said, there was a new cluster of COVID-19 spread in the city of Jayapura, which came from hundreds of medical personnel who contracted the virus.
"There are several areas where health workers also become clusters, namely clusters in hospitals or health facilities in the city of Jayapura. The total number of infected health workers is 240 people," Wiku said in a press conference broadcast on the Presidential Secretariat YouTube account, Friday. , July 24th.
After this incident, Wiku believes the Mayor of Jayapura will try to protect his medical personnel by providing personal protective equipment and training health workers.
Furthermore, he asked health workers to be careful in handling COVID-19 patients. Moreover, the number of health workers in Indonesia is limited, so it needs to be more strictly protected.
"Always be vigilant about using good personal protective equipment and applying biosafety and biosecurity in their daily work," he said.
In addition to alluding to the medical staff cluster, Wiku also touched on the proliferation of worker or industrial clusters that have recently become the spread of COVID-19. According to him, the cluster or spread of this virus can actually occur anywhere. Including in a house of worship.
The existence of this cluster, he continued, shows that the community is not orderly and disciplined in implementing health protocols.
"This cluster shows that the community is not yet disciplined, apply health protocols. If people start to be careless, they are not disciplined, the virus can be transmitted. This must be remembered that all people must be disciplined so that the cluster does not occur," he said.
As of Thursday, July 23, based on data from the Ministry of Health (Kemenkes), healed cases increased by 1,909 and positive cases increased by 1,906.
Meanwhile, the accumulated cured cases reached more than half of the accumulated positive cases. The total number of cases recovered was 52,164 people and the total positive cases were 93,657 people.
"The confirmed positive cases who died increased by 117 people. The total number of cases died was 4,576 people," the Ministry of Health was quoted as saying on Thursday, July 23.
The province with the most new cases was in DKI Jakarta with 470 cases and a total of 18,068 cases. Then, East Java has 357 new cases and a total of 19,450. East Java is also the province with the most accumulated cases in Indonesia.
Furthermore, Central Java with 295 new cases and a total of 8,021 cases. South Sulawesi has 120 new cases and a total of 8,547 cases. South Kalimantan with 116 new cases and a total of 55,332 cases. Then, North Sumatra has 100 new cases and a total of 3,263 cases.
Then, there are 4 provinces that reported no new cases today. The provinces are West Kalimantan, Riau Islands, Jambi and East Nusa Tenggara.
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