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THE COORDINATING Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment as well as the Coordinator for the Enforcement of Restrictions on Community Activities or PPKM Java Bali, Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan asked the public not to enter public places without PeduLindungi facilities.
“Then the Minister of Health will announce malls or shops or restaurants that PeduliLindungi does not use. And don’t go there because there will be a risk of transmission,” he said in an online press statement on the results of the limited PPKM evaluation meeting in Jakarta, Monday (1/24).
According to Luhut, the use of the PeduliLindungi application is also the reason why the cases of omicron in Indonesia are relatively low.
Similar to PeduliLindungi, the use of COVID Passes implemented in France has also been able to boost vaccination rates in the country.
“In comparison, the death rate and daily care in France are lower with the COVID Passes than if they were not there. For this reason, the government will continue to use, passively and tighten the use of the PeduliLindungi application, especially in dealing with this variant of Omicron,” he said.
The Deputy Chairperson of the Committee for Handling COVID-19 and National Economic Recovery (KPC PEN) also said the government always tries to take appropriate and measurable steps. Governments also use data to analyze and predict what might happen in the future.
Luhut stated that data from various countries today increasingly shows that the omicron variant provides a risk of treatment and also a fairly low mortality rate.
However, the speed with which this variant infects causes the number of daily cases to increase sharply and has the potential to increase the number of hospitalizations in the near future, threatening the hospital care facility system.
“The key here is our discipline. Without discipline, we will become victims of our indiscipline,” he concluded. [antaranews/photo special]
