SEMARANG - In order to handle COVID-19, now TNI and Polri personnel are ordered to assist in tracing close contacts of COVID-19 patients to rural areas and villages. This is necessary to prevent a more massive spread of the corona virus.
"The TNI-Polri have been given the task of providing assistance in tracing close contacts, which (according to) the evaluation results are still lacking," said the TNI Commander when visiting the central isolation area of the Semarang Mayor's Office House in Semarang City, Central Java, Sunday, 25 July.
According to him, tracking was carried out on at least 15 people who had close contact with people with corona virus infection.
He explained that people who had close contact with COVID-19 sufferers and according to the results of the examination indicated that they were infected with the virus would be immediately put in a centralized isolation area, while those whose test results were negative would be asked to self-isolate and be examined again five days after the first examination.
Meanwhile, the Head of the National Police's Security Maintenance Agency, Komjen Pol. Arief Sulistyanto stated the importance of tracing close contacts of COVID-19 patients to prevent widespread disease transmission.
"If a positive result is found in tracing, then surveillance must be carried out in a centralized isolation place," he said.
While reviewing centralized isolation facilities, the TNI Commander also expressed his hope that the spike in cases of COVID-19 transmission would not occur after the Eid al-Adha holiday.
"When Lebaran 2021, two weeks later there will be such a high spike. We hope that this Eid al-Adha will not spike like during Eid al-Fitr," he said.
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