Cases Of COVID-19 After Lebaran Seen In The Next 25 Days

Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - The increase in confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia after the 2022 Eid celebration will be seen within the next 20-25 days. This was conveyed by the Minister of Health, Budi Gunadi Sadikin.

"It's now a week after the holiday. We will wait for the next 20-25 days to see if there is a pattern of increase similar to the previous year's Christmas and Eid holidays," said Budi Gunadi Sadikin in a virtual press conference attended by the Presidential Secretariat YouTube in Jakarta, Monday, May 9 afternoon.

Budi said the situation of confirmed cases of COVID-19 had decreased. The government has so far reached the phase of careful monitoring.

Monitoring efforts are carried out by his party on new variants that exist in the world because a spike in cases occurs when there is a new variant of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19.

"Some countries with rising cases, such as Taiwan and the United States, are the Omicron BA.2 variant, which is also widely available in Indonesia," he said.

In other countries such as the UK and India, said Budi, the BA.2 variant is already dominant, but the cases are not increasing as rapidly as in Indonesia.

"One country in South Africa has a slight increase, there are new variants of BA.4 and BA.5, but because the increase is still small and the number is not large, we continue to monitor with WHO regarding this new variant," he said. Budi said the Ministry of Health was also monitoring the movement. COVID-19 cases after Eid 2022. Because based on monitoring after the long holiday, the increase will start to occur on the 27th to 34th day after the holiday.

According to the report from the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, the Java-Bali PPKM which took effect three weeks ago, there were no areas that were included in the level four PPKM category. There are only 2 regencies/cities at level three, level two areas totaling 97 regencies/cities, and level one regions totaling 29 regencies/cities.

While PPKM outside Java-Bali which took effect two weeks ago, the number of regions at level 1 increased from the previous 84 regions to 131 regions. Meanwhile, the number of regions at level 2 from the previous 259 regions fell to 216 regions.