It Turns Out, 190 Schools In Jakarta Have Cases Of COVID-19 As Long As PTM Is 100 Percent

ILLUSTRA TION BY VOI

JAKARTA - Head of the DKI Education Office, Nahdiana, admitted that there were 190 schools in Jakarta that had recorded cases of COVID-19 while holding face-to-face learning (PTM) with 100 percent capacity.

This was disclosed in a working meeting with DKI Regional House of Representatives Commission E. However, said Nahdiana, the findings of COVID-19 cases in 190 schools are data owned by the DKI Health Office from active case finding (ACF).

"Friends of the Health Service experienced the additions to 190 (schools)", said Nahdiana in a virtual meeting, Wednesday, January 2.

Nahdiana said that her party still needed to synchronize data with the Health Office. Because, based on data held by the Education Officer, the findings of new COVID-19 cases were in 99 schools.

The 99 schools recorded by the DKI Disdik as having cases of COVID-19 have been temporarily closed. Some have reopened.

Meanwhile, the total findings of COVID-19 cases in students, teachers, and education staff during PTM were 100 percent as many as 222 cases. "The number of positive ones is 222 and the positivity rate at the school is 0.7 percent. So it's still below 5 percent", she explained.

Separately, DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan finally plans to temporarily stop face-to-face learning (PTM) with 100 percent capacity in Jakarta.

This plan, said Anies, had been submitted to the Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, as the Coordinator of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) for Java and Bali.

This was done because of the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, accompanied by the findings of COVID-19 cases in schools.

"This afternoon I communicated with Mr. Luhut as the head of the Java-Bali COVID-19 Task Force to submit a proposal for Jakarta, PTM or face-to-face learning to be abolished for the next one month", Anies said when met in the East Jakarta area.

Thus, at this time Anies admitted that his party was still discussing the proposal to terminate PTM 100 percent with the central government.

Regarding when to stop PTM and continue online distance learning (PJJ), Anies will announce if a decision has been made.

"This is being discussed. After the discussion is over, we will tell you what the results are. But we are well aware that conditions in Jakarta require children to reduce risks and the suggestion from Jakarta is that we stop PTM and we 100 percent study from home. Later the results will be like what, we will update later", explained Anies.