The government will maintain the four-tiered public activity restrictions (PPKM) level amid a new rise of COVID-19 cases and local transmissions of the new XBB strain of the Omicron variant.
he government will maintain the four-tiered public activity restrictions (PPKM) level amid a new rise of COVID-19 cases and local transmissions of the new XBB strain of the Omicron variant.
“I reiterate that the government will keep using the PPKM level as the basis for activity curbs for residents, which we will keep evaluating as well,” Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan said on his Instagram post on Friday.
The minister, who oversees the government’s pandemic responses in Java and Bali, said that during the PPKM evaluation meeting earlier on Friday, he urged caution and reevaluation as the past week had seen the rise of new daily cases that passed the 5,000 mark.
A total of 5,303 cases were reported on Friday – the first time daily caseload reached more than 5,000 since Aug. 19 – and 4,717 on Saturday.
Luhut said that currently Java and Bali are witnessing rising new confirmed cases daily and a significant rise of deaths in Central Java and Yogyakarta.
On Thursday, the reported new cases of 4,951 was more than double the 2,457 new cases recorded on Monday. The country recorded 4,873 and 4,707 new cases on Wednesday and Tuesday, respectively.
The minister also said that according to past data and trajectory of COVID-19 cases, any new variants of the virus would reach its peak in the next one to two months.
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