The Health Office Checks With The Ministry Of Health About Surabaya Entering PPKM Level 2

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SURABAYA - The Surabaya City Health Service confirmed to the Public Health Emergency Operations Center (PHEOC) of the Ministry of Health regarding ratio tracing on the PPKM indicator application which was used as the determination of the capital city of East Java Province to enter PPKM Level 2 at the Ministry of Home Affairs.

"The PHEOC has responded that it will check and re-verify," said Head of the Surabaya City Health Service (Dinkes) Nanik Sukristina during a press conference at the Surabaya Communications and Information Office, reported by Antara, Thursday, May 12.

It is known that the COVID-19 situation in the City of Surabaya has been determined by PPKM Level 2 based on the Instruction of the Minister of Home Affairs (Inmendagri) Number 24 of 2022 and will take effect from 10 to 23 May 2022.

However, said Nanik, data and factually, PPKM in Surabaya is actually at Level 1.

He explained that there was an error in the system for the application to assess the COVID-19 situation at vaccine.kemenkes.go.id which was an indicator for determining the PPKM Level at the Ministry of Home Affairs. The system error occurred from April 29 to May 7, 2022 or during the 2022 Eid holidays and leave.

"We are monitoring the COVID-19 situation every day on the Ministry of Health (Ministry of Health) application. Finally, on April 28, 2022, we can still see the condition of Surabaya Level 1. Now, as of May 29, 2022, the application position is empty until May 7, 2022," said Nanik.

In addition, Nanik said, during the holidays and Eid leave from 29 April to 7 May 2022, the Ministry of Health's PPKM indicator application is also inaccessible so that the Surabaya COVID-19 situation indicator is still using data as of 28 April 2022. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health's application can only be accessed back on May 8, 2022 with the position of the City of Surabaya at Level 2.

"At that time the Surabaya COVID-19 situation was assessed at Level 2, because there was one indicator that was inadequate among the 8 PPKM indicators, namely the 1:0 tracing ratio. The most surprising thing was that our tracing position at that time was zero. In fact, the condition of Surabaya in the Silacak application showed ratio tracing exceeds the 1:15 target," he said.

Seeing an error in the system, he said, the Surabaya Health Office confirmed to the Indonesian Ministry of Health's PHEOC regarding ratio tracing on the Ministry of Health's PPKM Indicator application. This is because the Surabaya City Government's Silacak application which is connected to the Ministry of Health has exceeded the target.

As a result, he continued, on May 10, 2022, between 12.00 - 13.00 WIB, the Surabaya City Level indicator has changed to Level 1 with a tracing ratio of 1:31.

However, the Circular (SE) of the Ministry of Home Affairs regarding the Regional PPKM Level issued on May 10, 2022, the City of Surabaya is at Level 2. In fact, according to the level indicator in the Ministry of Health application, on May 10, 2022 the City of Surabaya is at Level 1.

"It is possible that the SE of the Ministry of Home Affairs refers to the condition of the Surabaya City PPKM Indicator as of May 7, 2022. On that date the application conditions have not been able to carry out data retrieval in a stable and optimal manner in the system, especially on tracing indicators," he said.

Therefore, said Nanik, when viewed on the Ministry of Health's application as of May 12, 2022, the City of Surabaya is at Level 1 according to the assessment of the COVID-19 situation. Although currently there is an increase in confirmed cases and hospitalizations, the COVID-19 situation in Surabaya is still under control.