Although Situasi Sudah Menjalankan Ke Endemi COVID-19, Wapres Ma'ruf Callkan Pemerintah Tak Ingin Buru-buru

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin (ANTARA/BPMI Setwapres)

JAKARTA - Vice President Ma'ruf Amin said that overall the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia had led to an endemic. But the government was not in a hurry to change that status. "Our government hasn't yet, even though the direction has gone to endemic and judging by the increase, it's been a little bit. But to make sure, the government still needs a while to make sure again, so be careful of us," said Ma'ruf in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Antara, Thursday, September 22. He also assessed that the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia is currently very good. "We do, our terms lead from pandemic to endemic, but indeed there are countries that have already said that Indonesia's handling has been very good," he said. However, he reminded, conditions are very likely to change. "But to state that it is still endemic by the government, don't let us rush later it turns out that recently there has been (increase of cases), we definitely used to be, in a position where there was no turmoil," he said. Meanwhile, on the other hand, the President of the United States, Joe Biden, in an interview on the CBS "60 Minutes" program said he believed the COVID-19 pandemic was over despite admitting that the US still had problems with the SARS-CoV-2 virus which continues to mutate. Separately, WHO Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said the end of the COVDI-19 pandemic was "in sight" and that the world was never in a better position to end COVID-19. Based on data from the COVID-19 Task Force as of September 21, 2022, the total number of positive confirmed cases in Indonesia increased by 2,384 cases bringing the total cases to 6,415,328 since COVID-19 hit in March 2020. Kasus sembuh juga bertambah 2,991 orang sehingga totalnya mencapai 6,231,970 kasus sementara pasien meninggal bertambah 18 orang menjadi total 157,948 sejak pandemi COVID-19 melanda Indonesia pada Maret 2020. As for the vaccinations carried out, the government has injected the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in Indonesia in the amount of 204,388,537 doses, the second dose that has been injected is 170,997,002 doses and the 3rd vaccination reached 62,879,386 doses and the 4th vaccination was 566,853.