Vice President: Beware Of Omicron's Local Transmission

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin chaired the Public Service Mall Socialization Meeting and MSME Empowerment at the South Sulawesi Governor's Office/ ANTARA/HO-Setwapres

JAKARTA - Vice President (Wapres) Ma'ruf Amin reminded the entire community and local governments (Pemda) to be aware of local transmissions of Omicron whose cases have started to increase in various regions. in America, Europe, and even India. Now there are local transmissions, so we have to be careful," said the Vice President in Makassar, South Sulawesi, as quoted from the Press, Media and Information Bureau (BPMI) of the Setwapres quoted by Antara, Monday, January 31.

The vice president also appealed to all levels of regional governments to control the transmission of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 cases by implementing strict health protocols, increasing testing, tracking and treatment (testing, tracing, treatment) and accelerating the implementation of vaccinations. "Therefore, we must control it, especially with the implementation of strict health protocols, wearing masks, then 3T. Then vaccination, be it the first, second and also booster, the third," he said. In addition, the Vice President also asked all parties to apply the PeduliLindung application in all public places, as an effort to monitor crowds of people. "The PeduliLindung application must be implemented in various places. The government has taken a firm stance that public places that do not carry out PeduliLindungi must be closed, because that could be a place of transmission," he emphasized. -19 which is predicted to be higher than the current time t the transmission of the Delta variant in 2021. The Deputy Chair of the Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery (KPC-PEN), as well as Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said this was predicted from the level of hospitalization for Omicron sufferers in the United States and Israel. a third lower than Delta. "However, the number of hospitalizations in the country is much higher, because the number of cases in the country has increased by more than three times compared to Delta," Luhut said at an online press conference in Jakarta, Monday, January 31.

Therefore, the government predicts the number of hospital inpatients in Indonesia can be higher than Delta, if the daily cases increase more than three times or equivalent to 150,000 cases per day. That is if we are not careful. However, until now, we still estimate that this figure is unlikely to happen, "said Luhut.