The Last 2 Weeks Of COVID Cases In Yogyakarta Crazy, Up Almost 70 Times

Daily Chairperson of the Yogyakarta COVID-19 Handling Task Force Heroe Poerwadi (ANTARA)

YOGYAKARTA - The Yogyakarta City COVID-19 Task Force said that active cases had increased quite rapidly in the last two weeks, reaching around 70 times.

"In the last two weeks, there has been a fairly rapid increase in cases and there has been a shift in case findings from initially travelers to family transmission," said Heroe Poerwadi, Head of the Yogyakarta COVID-19 Handling Task Force in Yogyakarta, Antara, Thursday, February 10.

The rapid growth rate of active cases needs to be balanced with community discipline in implementing health protocols and strengthening supervision from the environment through the RT-based Micro PPKM Command Post.

“The Omicron variant has the characteristics of rapid transmission although the severity is not high. However, for patients with comorbid or weak immunity can increase the severity. So, we still need to be careful," he said.

Heroe asked all Micro PPKM Command Posts to be reactivated to help monitor the implementation of health protocols in the community.

In addition, a wider tracking is also carried out according to the potential close contacts of positive confirmed patients. “Usually from one case, more than 30 people can be traced. This number of tracking is also adjusted to the patient's close contacts," he said.

Although there was a fairly high increase in cases, Heroe said that no urban village in Yogyakarta City was included in the red zone category. Of the 45 sub-districts, three are in the orange zone, three are in the green zone and the rest are in the yellow zone.

"The shelter and BOR in hospitals are still able to accommodate patients, because around 85 percent of patients do not show any symptoms, so they are self-isolating at home," he said.

The number of shelters for handling patients will also be increased, so that in the city of Yogyakarta there will be three isolation shelters, namely in Towers One and Two Rusunawa Bener and Rusunawa Gemawang.

As of Thursday, there were an additional 149 new cases of COVID-19 in Yogyakarta with one patient declared cured or completed isolation and no patient died. So, in Yogyakarta City there are currently 595 active cases.