KM Labobar From Papua Brings 170 Passengers To Ternate, Tests For Antigen There Are 3 Positive COVID-19

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JAKARTA - The Task Force for Handling COVID-19 in Ternate City, North Maluku (Malut) reported that three passengers on the Pelni KM Labobar ship were exposed to the corona virus. This was known after the health team conducted an antigen swab test on passengers arriving from Papua.

Secretary of the Ternate City COVID-19 Task Force, Ihsan Hamzah at Ahmad Yani Port, Ternate, said, according to information received by the Task Force that there were a number of Pelni Ship passengers entering Ternate City, it was suspected that there were those who were exposed to the corona virus, so his party immediately supervised at the port entrance. when the ship arrived.

The Ternate City COVID-19 Task Force Team immediately carried out supervision for passengers arriving at the Ahmad Yani Port in Ternate, by conducting an antigen swab test for all passengers who came and three positive COVID-19 cases were found.

"A total of 170 passengers who arrived at Ternate's Ahmad Yani Port were successfully tested for antigen swab by the health team from the Task Force, three of them were positive for COVID-19, all of them travelers from Papua," said Ihsan quoted from Antara, Sunday, February 20.

He said the three people who were positive for COVID-19, two of them will continue their trip to the Gurapin and Oba areas, Tidore Islands City, while one person will go to Morotai Island Regency.

Even so, said Ihsan, who is the Head of the Ternate City BPBD, the three people have now been taken to the quarantine location at the Corner hotel to undergo isolation and be monitored by the Task Force team.

"We will isolate them first, to anticipate that they will not contact their family or other relatives, after that we will coordinate with the COVID-19 Task Force team, both in Tidore Islands City and Morotai Island Regency, so that we will allow them to return to their home areas with supervised by the local Task Force team," he said.

Based on data from the Task Force as of February 19, 2022, there have been an addition of positive cases of COVID-19 in Ternate City to 54 people, so that during the beginning of this year there were 231 people, cumulatively since March 2020 to date there are 3,186 people.