Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Minister of Finance Singapore, Lawrence Wong stated that the government of the neighboring country had prepared a scenario for the corona virus (Covid-19) will become endemic.
Endemic means that Covid-19 will not go away, will continue to exist for the next several years, and can occur from time to time.
“When will that happen? I really don’t know,” said Wong as quoted from The Straits Times, Saturday (29/5).
“But we did plan a plausible scenario where scientists around the world come to the point that eliminating Covid-19 is impossible, and we have to live with this virus.”
Wong also said that the Singapore government had no plans to tighten the area closure policy (lockdown) partial currently being implemented. According to him, the policy lockdown The partial run is going well, and is starting to show an effect on the number of cases of Covid-19 transmission in Singapore.
On the one hand, he, who is the chairman of the Singapore Covid-19 Task Force, asked the public to remain vigilant by reducing unnecessary activities outside the home.
“Policy lockdown The partial operation is going well, it can be seen from the stabilization of the number of communal infections,” he said.
Previously, Australian Griffith University epidemiologist Dicky Budiman had stated that even Covid-19 was very likely to become endemic in Indonesia.
The reason, he said, the core of the indicator of a disease will become endemic is the reproduction number. When a region or country is difficult to reach that number below one, it is very likely that diseases including Covid-19 will become endemic.
“He’s never been or has a hard time getting to below one although it can happen in some areas under one yes even like in Australia,” he was quoted as saying. detik.com.
He added, the tendency for Covid-19 to become endemic in the region is even greater when the health system is still poor and the Covid-19 handling strategy is not optimal, as is the case in tracing and testing.
“But in countries with poor health systems, strategy testing tracing-It’s also still bad, including Indonesia, so it tends to be very endemic,” continued Dicky.
“Because the reproduction rate is in the range of 1, it may even be more than one in some areas, this is very influential in a disease becoming endemic,” he said.
(mts/kid)
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