PPKM Extended Today, Will Jakarta Drop Level?

ILUSTRASI/VOI

JAKARTA - The government will announce the continuation of the implementation of the Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) after two weeks of extension. Will PPKM Jakarta go down?

Currently, the development of COVID-19 in the capital city continues to improve. Yesterday, Jakarta's COVID-19 cases increased by 131 cases with 1,346 active cases.

Jakarta's COVID-19 recovery rate has reached 98.3 percent and the death rate has reached 1.6 percent. In fact, daily COVID-19 deaths have recorded 0 cases in recent days.

In addition, Jakarta's COVID-19 vaccination coverage is already high. It was recorded that 10,752,953 people were vaccinated with the first dose in Jakarta, or reaching 120 percent of the target and 8,129,488 for the second dose or 90.2 percent.

In fact, Jakarta has met the requirements to get the PPKM assessment level down, from level 3 to level 2. This is also acknowledged by the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan.

However, Luhut said that the decline in PPKM levels in Jakarta must coincide with its agglomeration areas, namely Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, and Bekasi.

In the extension of the Java-Bali PPKM two weeks ago, Luhut said that Jabodetabek had not been able to go down from PPKM Level 3 to Level 2. The reason was that vaccination coverage in districts/cities in Jakarta's buffer zone did not meet the standards to enter the easing period at PPKM Level 2. Meanwhile, PPKM level adjustments in one agglomeration area must be the same.

"The Jabodetabek agglomeration has not gone down because the regencies of Bogor, Tangerang, and Bekasi have a shortage of level 3 vaccinations", Luhut said on Monday, October 4.

For Jabodetabek to lower the PPKM level 3 to level 2, the total achievement of dose 1 vaccination in each district/city is at least 50 percent and the achievement of dose 1 vaccination for the elderly is at least 40 percent.

Meanwhile, Deputy Governor of DKI, Ahmad Riza Patria, has also asked buffer areas, namely Bogor, Depok, Tangerang, Bekasi (Bodetabek) to increase the coverage of COVID-19 vaccination in their respective regions.

"We ask other regions to work together to increase vaccine efforts, implement disciplined, strict, responsible health protocols. Thus, Jakarta's level can go down", said Riza at City Hall, Thursday, October 7.