JAKARTA, KOMPAS TV – President Joko Widodo or Jokowi assess effort lockdown carried out at the city, district and provincial levels, is not the right solution to reduce the spread of corona virus or Covid-19.
The reason, according to Jokowi, lockdown carried out at the city, district and provincial levels can sacrifice people’s lives.
“There is no need to speculatelockdown provinsi, me-lockdown city, or menlockdown district, because it will sacrifice people’s lives, “said Jokowi in a video uploaded to the Presidential Secretariat Youtube account, Saturday (3/10/2020).
Jokowi said that the government has a strategy in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic.
Namely by finding a balance point between the interests of public health and economic interests.
For this reason, instead of locking down provinces, cities and districts, Jokowi emphasizes the application of micro-scale social restrictions or micro-lockdowns.
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