Karawang COVID-19 task force spokesman Fitra Hergyana said that one person had been infected with the virus when they attended the event recently at a restaurant in West Karawang.

"After tracing and conducting swab tests, we found that 10 other people were COVID-19 positive," Fitra said on Tuesday, as quoted by tribunnews.com. He added that this proved that the coronavirus spreads very fast in a crowd.

"As of Tuesday, many patients are still in isolation or being treated [in Karawang]. The Karawang administration is currently short of health workers because many of them also [have the virus]," he said. 

The regency’s hospitals are currently treating 349 people, 22 of whom are health workers. Given the situation, the Karawang administration is now recruiting medical and nonmedical volunteers to help with COVID-19 mitigation and management.

Fitra invited people who had the expertise, experience and desire to help to join the task force by applying through the official website, relawankarawang.org.

He said the task force currently needed about 10 medical volunteers, but only a few had applied so far.

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