Java-Bali PPKM Assessment Back to Weekly Basis Amid Omicron
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17 January 2022 13:55 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Starting this week, the government is set to extend the Covid-19 public activity restriction (PPKM) in the islands of Java - Bali on a weekly basis while the restriction status outside of the two islands will be set every two weeks.
The Home Affairs Ministry director general of territorial administration Safrizal announced this on January 17. “Java-Bali will be once a week while regions outside that will be once every two weeks,” he said.
This announcement coincides with a similar statement issued by the Coordinating Minister of Maritime Affairs and Investments Luhut Pandjaitan, who said the PPKM assessment period will be adjusted to the rate of the Omicron spread, especially in the Java island.
"The government will again conduct PPKM assessments every week and remove the two-week assessment solely to follow the development of the Omicron case which is predicted to increase very quickly," said Pandjaitan, who is also the coordinator of the Java-Bali PPKM on Sunday, January 16.
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