Bandarlampung City Government Immediately Re-evaluate Limited Face-to-Face Schools

BANDARLAMPUNG - The Bandarlampung City Government will immediately re-evaluate the implementation of limited face-to-face learning (PTM) in educational units under its auspices.

"PTM has started, in the next week we will evaluate how teaching and learning is being carried out in schools by looking at the COVID-19 condition," said Mayor of Bandar Lampung, Eva Dwiana in Bandarlampung, as reported by Antara, Monday, March 14.

He said, if later the COVID-19 pandemic situation in Bandarlampung City was more sloping, the PTM implementation, which is currently only filled with 50 percent of students from room capacity, will switch to 100 percent implementation.

"This week we will try it out first, if the implementation is good and the health protocols are also implemented well in schools and cases are decreasing, PTM will no longer be 50 percent," he said.

He also asked all school principals and teachers at schools in Bandar Lampung to implement the program. In addition, he also pays attention to and monitors the progress of his students.

"School principals and teachers must monitor the progress. I have also met with the parents and explained to them why PTM has just been implemented. We don't want to implement PTM as soon as possible, but because previously conditions were not possible," he said.

Previously, the Government The city of Bandarlampung has adopted a policy of holding limited face-to-face learning (PTM) with 50 percent of the classroom capacity with half-day teaching and learning time.

Meanwhile, based on data from the Lampung Bappeda, daily confirmed cases of positive COVID-19 in Bandarlampung City experienced an addition of 34 patients, this number decreased when compared to Sunday, March 13 when daily COVID-19 cases amounted to 54 patients.