In Jakarta, Offices And Communities Are Most Prone To Contracting COVID-19

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JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan said there was an increasing trend in the spread of COVID-19 cases in the last 2 weeks. The spread occurred mostly in office activities and community members during the transitional PSBB period.

"The increase in spread is in line with the increased mobility of citizens. From our findings with testing, activities in offices and community communities are one of the most vulnerable places for spreading," Anies said in a YouTube broadcast by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government, Friday, July 25 evening.

During the transitional PSBB period, a number of activities have indeed been reopened. The business premises have been allowed to reopen on the condition that the employee capacity limit is a maximum of 50 percent.

Companies are asked to divide employees' working hours using the shift system. However, this is not all followed. Since supervision to date, there have been 1,317 companies that violated the provisions of the transitional PSBB. A total of 4 of them were temporarily closed.

In addition, many community members have started their activities again. In this activity, many residents did not comply with the COVID-19 prevention protocol.

"In a place like this you have to keep your distance, you have to remind each other, never hesitate to reprimand our neighbors who may have neglected to follow health protocols, for example, use a mask at any time, wash your hands as regularly as possible, keep your distance. That's a simple principle," said Anies.

To date, Anies said, Jakarta already has 67 COVID-19 referral hospitals. In details, there are 4,556 isolation beds and 659 intensive care units (ICU) specifically for COVID-19.

"The number of beds capacity is far more than the early days of the pandemic," said Anies.

Furthermore, about the ability to check, the polymerase chainreaction (PCR) swab test was always increasing every week. To date, the total number of tests carried out has reached 499,410 specimens.

The World Health Organization (WHO) requires the number of people examined. WHO sets the standard, 1,000 new people out of 1 million population are tested each week.

Anies said DKI had exceeded the number of test standards by WHO. In the past week, Jakarta has tested 39,268 new people. If calculated, the equivalent is 3 688 people per 1 million population in a week.

"If WHO standardizes 1000 per 1,000,000 population in a week, Jakarta has also successfully passed this standard number of tests," said Anies.