Medan City Government Continues To Control The Spread Of COVID-19

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MEDAN - The Medan City Government, North Sumatra continues to control the rate of spread of COVID-19 by monitoring to the environmental level in this area.

"Environmental level monitoring uses applications and also strengthens 3T, namely testing, tracing, and treatment," said Medan Mayor Bobby Nasution in Medan as reported by Antara, Monday, April 11.

The Medan City Government also continues to encourage residents to continue to apply strict health protocols and intensively carry out vaccinations to accelerate the formation of group immunity in the community.

Bobby Nasution said the hard work of handling the pandemic so far has begun to produce results which slowly the number of confirmed COVID-19 has decreased significantly.

Data from the Medan City Health Office stated that the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases had experienced a fairly high spike on Thursday (3/3), namely 10.391 cases.

"But 28 days later or to be precise on Thursday (31/3), the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases is only 299," said Bobby Nasution.

Even though there has been a decline in cases, Medan Mayor Bobby asked Dr. Pirngadi Regional Public Hospital (RSUD) to provide 80 rooms and 20 ICUs to anticipate case handling in the event of a spike.

The report from the Medan City COVID-19 Task Force, Sunday (10/4), stated that the total confirmed cases of COVID-19 were 72.846, or an increase of 11 new cases compared to the cases on Saturday (9/4).

Of the total 72.846 cases, 71.671 cases were declared cured, 160 patients were still being treated and 1.015 people died.

"If there is a spike in cases, it can be handled quickly," said Bobby Nasution.