DKI DPRD Members And COVID-19 Positive Staff, DKI DPRD Building Closed For 5 Days

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JAKARTA - Jakarta DPRD Chairman Prasetio Edi Marsudi stated that there are DPRD members who have been confirmed positive for COVID-19. Apart from council members, there are also DPRD secretariat staff and other individual service providers (PJLP) who are infected with COVID-19.

"Yes, that's right, there is one member of the DPRD and a civil servant. They are now in isolation in the hospital," said Prasetio when contacted, Tuesday, July 28.

Even so, Prasetio did not mention who the Kebon Sirih parliament member was confirmed positive for COVID-19. Prasetio said they underwent the swab test independently and the results were positive.

"Looks like he was exposed outside. They meet a lot of people too," said Prasetio.

As a result of this case, the DPRD Building was temporarily closed for five days, starting from Wednesday, July 29 to Sunday, August 2.

The work activities and activities of the DKI DPRD will resume on Monday, August 3, 2020. Meanwhile, activities that have been scheduled will be rescheduled through a DPRD DKI Deliberative Council meeting.

While it was closed, Prasetio said, the DPRD building would be sprayed with disinfectants. This is in order to break the chain of spreading COVID-19.

"The office is temporarily closed until Monday. I want to spray disinfectant," said Prasetio.

For information, until now there are at least 59 COVID-19 clusters in Jakarta offices. This cluster, said Andri, will continue to grow. This is because recently there was a COVID-19 infection in other offices, such as Okezone, Eximbank, and Siemens.

As for the 59 COVID-19 clusters in office environments, 17 of them are within the scope of ministries, 30 are regional, central and BUMN agencies with offices in DKI, and 12 others are in private companies.