JAKARTA - Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said the name change of the implementation of the emergency community activity restriction (PPKM) to PPKM level 4 was based on the governor's proposal.
"We indeed harmonize the term emergency with levels 1, 2, 3, 4, because indeed this is also a request in a meeting with the governors, where the governors also propose to change the term," said Coordinating Minister Airlangga, quoted by Antara, Wednesday, July 21.
The name change, he continued, also came from the public who asked for clarity about when PPKM entered levels 1 to 4.
Coordinating Minister Airlangga said the level criteria were contained in the Minister of Home Affairs Number 22 of 2021. The Minister of Home Affairs explained the daily testing target to monitor tracing.
In addition, the name change was also based on the directives of the World Health Organization (WHO), namely transmission and response capacity.
"We see that from a level point of view, this is situation level 4 transmission and this response capacity is not sufficient, so this needs to be improved," he explained.
The criteria for areas with PPKM level 4 are positive confirmation cases of 100 thousand residents over 150. Treatment rates per 100 thousand residents above 30. Testing and tracing capabilities and Bad Occupancy Rate (BOR) levels.
"If one of these criteria is hit, we put it in level 4. Level 4 is available at the Ministry of Health on a daily basis, so we also maintain it based on weekly data so that we can determine the number of cities later," he explained.
The government decided to implement PPKM level 4 to July 25 and will open it gradually starting July 26, 2021 if the trend of COVID-19 cases continues to decline.
There are 122 regencies/cities in Java-Bali and 15 districts/cities outside Java-Bali that apply PPKM level 4.
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