(Fighting against new crown pneumonia) Indonesia’s epidemic continues to ease, officials prevent the third wave of rebound
China News Agency, Jakarta, October 12 (Reporter Lin Yongchuan) When the second wave of the new crown epidemic that rebounded from June this year is continuing to ease, Indonesian President Joko Widodo and relevant senior officials have intensively spoken out, demanding that relevant departments act quickly to prevent the third wave. The arrival of the epidemic.
Indonesian media reported on the 12th that Joko asked relevant departments to predict the possibility of a third wave of new crown cases after the upcoming Christmas and New Year holidays, and take effective measures to respond quickly.
Since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in early March last year, the number of confirmed new crown cases in Indonesia has experienced a rebound after each long holiday. The second wave of the epidemic, which started in early June this year and caused a large number of confirmed and dead cases due to the spread of the delta mutant strain, broke out after the long holiday of Hari Raya.
After more than three months of strict implementation of the “emergency restrictions on social activities” prevention and control measures, coupled with the nationwide effort to accelerate the new crown vaccination, Indonesia’s second wave of epidemic is continuing to ease.
With the gradual relaxation of prevention and control measures and the gradual recovery of economic and social activities, epidemiologists here have constantly reminded the emergence of the third wave of epidemics.
Ganipu, director of the Indonesian National Disaster Relief Agency and head of the epidemic prevention and control working group, also reminded that it should be noted that the Christmas and New Year holidays may trigger a third wave of epidemics.
Ganip said that it is necessary to strictly abide by the epidemic prevention and health rules and speed up vaccination to prevent a potential third wave of epidemics.
Indonesia’s Marine and Investment Coordination Minister Luhut, who is responsible for the prevention and control of the epidemic in Java and Bali, emphasized that the vaccination rate of the elderly in the country should be accelerated to reduce the hospitalization rate and mortality rate when a new wave of epidemics arrives.
According to data from the Indonesian Ministry of Health, as of that day, more than 100 million people in the country had received the new crown vaccine, of which more than 58.4 million had completed two doses and nearly 1.03 million had received a third booster shot.
Indonesian officials announced that in the afternoon that there were 1261 new cases of new crown confirmed in the country in the past 24 hours, with a total of 4,229,943 confirmed cases; 47 new deaths and a total of 142,763 deaths. (over)
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