PALANGKA RAYA – EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATION BUREAU. The Central Kalimantan Covid-19 Handling Task Force delivered a Press Release on the progress of handling the Covid-19 pandemic in Central Kalimantan until 03.00 p.m., Saturday (8/1/2022).

The Central Kalimantan Covid-19 Task Force Team, as well as the Central Covid-19 Handling Task Force, conveyed that Face-to-face Learning (PTM) with full-capacity has begun in even semester of 2021/2022. It is considered important for teachers and parents to be encouraged to become the 3M Health Protocols Task Force and coordinate with the Regency/Municipality Covid-19 Task Force. “Let’s enforce the discipline of health protocols, children’s safety remains the main priority,” the Task Force Team urged.

The Central Kalimantan Covid-19 Handling Task Force Team said that there was no increase in the number of accumulated data on positive confirmed Covid-19 patients in Central Kalimantan, bringing the total to 46724 people. There was an addition of 1 patient recovered, bringing the total to 45125 people. And, there was no death case, so it remained 1589 people.

He also conveyed the data of Covid-19 that had been collected up to 03.00 p.m., as follows: there were no additional confirmed cases, so there were still 46724 people. There was an additional 1 person recovered, namely in Sukamara, so from 45124 to 45125 people. There was a decrease of 1 person under treatment, so from 11 to 10 people. There were no additional cases of death, so there were still 1589 people, with a mortality rate (CFR) of 3.4%.

For Bed Occupancy Rate in Hospitals (BOR), Intensive Beds did not experience a change in Bed Occupancy (0.00%), so it remained 7.14%, where no Regency/Municipality had BOR above 50%, while Beds Isolation did not change the Bed Occupancy (0.00%), so it remained 1.29%, where there was no Regency/Municipality with BOR above 50%.

For the achievement of vaccination target of 2,036,104, the realization of Dose I Vaccination for Central Kalimantan Province has reached 80.66%. The regency that has not yet reached 70% is Gunung Mas (69.44%).

For the achievement of vaccination target for teachers and education personnel, High Schools (SMA), and equivalent vocational schools (SMK), the realization of PNS/GTT/PTT Vaccination did not increase so that it remained at 6,258 or 79.01%. The first dose of SMA/SMK did not have any change, so it remained at 73.202 or 76.95%, and the second dose of SMA/SMK did not have any change either, so it remained at 32,403 or 34.06%.

Based on Instruction of the Minister of Home Affairs Number 02 of 2022 dated January 3, 2022 on the Implementation of Restrictions on Community Activities at Level 3, Level 2, and Level 1 and Optimizing the Command Post for Handling Corona Virus Disease 2019 at the Village and District Levels to Control the Spread of Corona Virus Disease 2019 in the Sumatra, Nusa Tenggara, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku, and Papua, for regencies/municipality in Central Kalimantan Province, there are three criteria, namely Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 (valid until January 17, 2022). The regencies/municipality with these criteria include: Level 1 covering East Kotawaringin, Kapuas, South Barito, North Barito, Seruyan, Lamandau, Gunung Mas, Pulang Pisau, and East Barito; Level 2 includes West Kotawaringin, Katingan, Murung Raya, and Palangka Raya; and Level 3 includes Sukamara. (din/trans.by feb)