Kemenkes Finds 15 Omicron Infection Patients BF.7, Derived From Case Importation And Local Transmission

Head of the Communication and Public Service Bureau of the Indonesian Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi, when delivering a statement to reporters at the Indonesian Ministry of Health Building, Jakarta/ANTARA

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health has detected a total of 15 patients infected with COVID-19 sub-variant Omicron BF.7 in Indonesia as of Friday, December 30. All of them come from case imports and local transmissions. "Nine cases include local transmission. The rest come from foreign travelers (importation)," said Head of the Communication and Public Service Bureau of the Ministry of Health, Siti Nadia Tarmizi in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Friday, December 30. Nadia detailed the findings of the sub-variant Omicron which triggered a spike in cases in China and a number of other countries reported from DKI Jakarta seven cases, West Java one case and Bali seven cases. Until now, the Ministry of Health continues to monitor fluctuations in BF.7 cases through genomic surveillance activities from people who have close contact with patients. "The temporary development is through supervision at a number of entrances that have been tightened, genomic surveillance for monitoring cases," he said. Nadia appealed to people who are currently on the 2022 Christmas and New Year 2023 holidays to follow the rules of the COVID-19 Handling Task Force Number 24 and 25 concerning Domestic and Foreign Travel Actors to prevent the risk of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19. Meanwhile, Spokesperson for the Indonesian Ministry of Health Mohammad Syahril said that as many as seven BF.7 cases were obtained from information received by the Ministry of Health on the evening of December 29, 2022. "Five cases of domicile Jakarta, two cases of domicile outside DKI Jakarta and have been forwarded to the local health office," he said. As for the five domiciled in DKI Jakarta, further close contact tracing has been carried out, consisting of three men, two women, three people aged 30-50 years, one person 50-60 years, one person 63 years. "Based on the positive period of PCR from October 20 to November 12, 2022, the patient has no history of traveling abroad or out of town," he said. Syahril added that all patients had recovered after undergoing self-isolation at home for 10 days. "Everything has mild symptoms. The most frequent symptoms are fever, cough, runny nose, sore throat. Some are anosmia or find it difficult to smell and some complain of stomach pain, nausea and vomiting," he said. Syahril appealed to the public not to panic in response to the news, as long as the community undergoes a complete or booster dose or booster dose of COVID-19 vaccination program.