Sri Sultan Highlights Awareness Of DIY Residents About Prokes: Don't Do It Yourself

Governor of the Special Region of Yogyakarta Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X/ANTARA

YOGYAKARTA - Governor of the Special Region of Yogyakarta Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X asked his citizens not to decrease awareness in implementing health protocols, following the high additional positive cases of COVID-19 in the region.

"How can the awareness of the community not go down, in the sense of arbitrarily, crowding around at will, not wearing masks at will. That's the main thing," said Sultan HB X at the Kepatihan Complex, Yogyakarta, quoted by Antara, Thursday, February 24.

Based on data from the DIY Regional Government as of February 24, 2022, new cases of COVID-19 in DIY increased by 2,866 people. This number is the highest during the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the Governor of DIY, whether or not the additional COVID-19 cases in DIY will be controlled depends on the will of the community to be disciplined in implementing health protocols.

Discipline in implementing health protocols, according to him, is more important than blocking policies at the border.

"It's not a matter of opening or closing, but how is public awareness to apply health protocols and wear masks. That's something important," said the King of the Yogyakarta Palace.

However, the Sultan ensured that the DIY Regional Government had prepared an isolation place or shelter for COVID-19 patients.

Apart from Mutiara 2 Hotel in the Malioboro area of Yogyakarta City, several places have also been prepared by the DIY Regional Government to anticipate the surge in COVID-19 cases.

"If there is no problem with adding a shelter, we have prepared it. If Mutiara Hotel is full, we also have a shelter in Kalasan, there will be no problem," he said.

Meanwhile, the Head of Public Relations of the DIY Regional Government, Ditya Nanaryo Aji, said that the results of the S-gene Target Failure (SGTF) in DIY as of Thursday (24/2) at 15.00 WIB recorded the number of probable cases of omicron or patients suspected of being infected with the COVID-19 variant of omicron in DIY to be 2,084 people.

"Probable omicron 2,084 of 2,347 samples examined," said Ditya.