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           Healthcare
           workers use
           their free
           time taking
           pictures to-
           gether.


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          Public Relation
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            dominated by family clusters which reported      higher if the post-holidays family clusters begin
            to be still increasing in the last few weeks. The   to trigger new residential or office clusters. He
            patients admitted they have travel history       believed health protocols campaign should be
            during year-end holidays.                        tightened as the 3W campaign was no longer
                                                             relevant.  “It should be wash hands, wear mask,
            Until January 31st 2021, the agency reported     watch our distance, avoid crowd and reduce
            at least 612 family clusters with 1,643 postive   mobilities. Those protocols should be written
            cases has been recorded. The number was          and placed in every entrance doors at malls,
            recorded during the third week of January until   offices and public places,” said Tri Yunis.
            31st. Most of the patients have travel history to   Without the residents’ cooperation in complying
            West Java (Bandung, Puncak, Bogor), Central      health protocols, the city government’s top
            and East Java, also Yogyakarta.                  strategy in handling COVID-19 by doing testing,
                                                             tracing and isolating will not be optimal. They
            An epidemiologist at University of Indonesia     also need to urge intervention of the task forces
            Tri Yunis Miko Wahyono told JaKita the high      at RT and RW units in order to prevent more
            mobilities of residents during long holidays     family clusters.
            were  most  potential  to  create  crowds  which
            exacerbated the surge in COVID-19 cases. The     Meanwhile, head of Jakarta Public Order Agency,
            crowds were especially seen in recreational      Arifin said level of compliance in residential
            places, malls, restaurants and other public      places were actually low, that makes his side
            places. “Usually, the peak would occur two       to optimize the  roles of  COVID-19 task  forces
            weeks after the holiday time,” he said.          designated  at  several  areas,  start  from  sub-
                                                             district level to RT and RW level.
            He predicted the surge in cases will get                                          mus/yen/sam





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