Transfer Pandemic Status To The COVID-19 Endemic Wait For Jokowi And WHO's Decree

Endemic illustration (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Health is still waiting for a decision from President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) and the World Health Organization (WHO) regarding the determination of the status of the pandemic to the COVID-19 endemic. Spokesperson for the Indonesian Ministry of Health Mohammad Syahril stated that the determination of the status of the COVID-19 endemic in Indonesia is still waiting for the presidential and WHO decisions. "Not only the Indonesian nation, but other nations are also trying to get the status of the pandemic revoked if the parameters are very under control," said Mohammad Syahril quoted by ANTARA, Tuesday, February 21. During the pandemic that hit Indonesia, there are two health emergency statuses that apply in Indonesia to protect the public from the risk of transmission, namely Presidential Decree (Keppres) Number 11 of 2020 concerning the Determination of the COVID-19 and Presidential Health Emergency Number 12 of 2020 concerning the Determination of Non-Alamic Disasters Spread of COVID-19 as a National Disaster. According to Syahril, the national policy needs to be removed first towards endemic. Currently, the policy that has been lifted has only the Implementation of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM) on December 30, 2022. Meanwhile, the global pandemic emergency that has been valid for the last three years is the WHO authority, said Syahril added. "For the time (endemic) when?, we cannot answer for sure, we will wait for the policy submitted by the President at a later date regarding the revocation of health emergency status," he said. If we look at the current indicators of cases in Indonesia, said Syahril, the pandemic situation is still under control. As of February 19, 2023, the rate of confirmed cases reached 113 cases or decreased by 14.9 the role of the previous daily cases reaching 200-ans per day. The death rate, averaged to reach two or decreased compared to the last week of 31.2 percent. Inpatients even though it rose by about 1.5 percent, but the number of patient beds where patient care at the hospital fell to 2.14 percent.

Even with the positivity rate at 1.2 percent or far below the WHO parameter threshold, a maximum of 5 percent. "So in total, these four parameters, Indonesia is included in the community transmission level 1, as posted by WHO," he said. Syahril added, the antibody serology survey as of January 2023 was 99 percent, up 0.5 percent from July 2021.