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View all search resultsSurakarta to enforce 14-day quarantine on arrival
The city’s quarantine facility can hold 60 people.
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he administration of Surakarta, Central Java, is seeking to require travelers coming into the city for the year-end holidays to enter quarantine upon arrival to curb COVID-19 transmission.
Surakarta deputy mayor FX Hadi Rudyatmo said the quarantine would last 14 days.
“The duration of the quarantine equals the virus incubation period, which is 14 days,” the mayor, better known as Rudy, said on Tuesday, as quoted by kompas.id.
The policy is supposed to come into force on Dec. 15.
Initially, the city administration had planned to use the Vastenburg Fortress as the quarantine facility. The fortress is an 18th-century Dutch fort located in Gladak, Surakarta, and is a city landmark.
However, parts of the heritage site were damaged and the administration would have needed to make repairs before using it as a quarantine facility.
“The awning of the entrance of the heritage site is broken. We have to fix it first,” said Rudy.
