Daily Covid-19 Cases Are Still High, Government Still Allow Schools Face-to-Face All

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – The Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture ( Coordinating Minister for PMK) Muhadjir Effendy stated that the government has begun to make concessions for schools to start face to face learning.

This was done at a time when daily Covid-19 cases were still high in Indonesia.

“At a limited cabinet meeting on August 5, 2020, he gave directions to relax or relax in teaching and learning activities for students with a lot of considerations,” said Muhadjir through the Youtu channel of the Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemendikbud), Friday (7/8 / 2020).

“That’s why the President gave directions to start the teaching and learning process in schools with certain considerations,” he continued.

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Muhadjir added that later technical decisions on the implementation of face-to-face learning activities in schools must be supported by careful consideration.

In addition, schools and local governments must respond quickly in the event of Covid-19 transmission in the school environment.

He also reminded that the face-to-face learning process in schools must also follow the zoning system established by the Covid-19 Handling Task Force.

Currently, areas that are allowed to hold face-to-face learning activities at schools are areas with the status of the green zone (no risk) and the yellow zone (low risk).

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Previously only the green zone was allowed to hold face-to-face learning activities at schools.

In 163 Regions

Chairman of the Covid-19 Handling Task Force Doni Monardo said 163 yellow zone areas (low risk) could start face to face school.

Doni conveyed this in a press statement on the Youtube channel of the Ministry of Education and Culture (Kemendikbud), Friday (7/8/2020).

“If you look at the map as of August 2, there are 163 yellow zones where face-to-face learning activities will be possible later,” said Doni.

Also read: Doni Monardo: 163 Yellow Zone Areas Can Start Face-to-Face Schools

To note, corona virus transmission still occurs in the community until Friday (7/8/2020). This causes the number of Covid-19 cases to continue to grow.

Data as of Friday at 12.00 WIB shows that there were an additional 2,473 new cases of Covid-19 in the last 24 hours.

These additions cause there are now 121,226 Covid-19 cases in the country, counting from the first case announced on March 2, 2020.

This information was conveyed by the Covid-19 Task Force through the Covid19.go.id website which was updated on Friday afternoon.

A total of 2,473 new cases were obtained after the government examined 30,159 specimens from 15,599 people sampled in a day.

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The government has accumulated an examination of 1,663,315 specimens from 951,910 people sampled.

This means that one person can undergo more than one specimen examination.

Although the number of cases continues to increase, the government is raising hopes with the news that more and more Covid-19 patients are recovering.

The same data shows that there are an additional 1,912 recovered Covid-19 patients. They were declared cured after two tests using the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method showed negative results for the corona virus.

Thus, the total number of recovered Covid-19 patients has now reached 77,557 people. This figure reaches 64 percent of all confirmed Covid-19 cases.

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