The government of Lampung province will reactivate COVID-19 handling command posts from the district and city to the village levels to curb the transmission of the XBB sub-variant of the Omicron COVID-19 variant.
“Regarding the XBB variant, it needs quick anticipatory measures because currently, everything is slowly recovering,” assistant I for government and people’s welfare at the Lampung provincial government, Qodratul Ikhwan, said here on Monday.
According to him, the reactivation of the command posts is aimed at supporting the surveillance of COVID-19 cases in the community.
“We continue to urge for the reactivation of COVID-19 command posts. For the province-level command post, it still exists,” he informed.
The Lampung provincial government has also continued efforts to accelerate COVID-19 vaccinations.
“Currently, in Lampung, it (the coverage) has reached 80 percent for vaccination,” Ikhwan said.
The booster dose vaccination has been expedited to improve the community’s immunity against COVID-19 transmission, he informed.
Those who have been vaccinated could recover faster from an infection because of immunity acquired from vaccination, he explained.
In Lampung province, out of the 7,558,816 targeted recipients, the first dose has been provided to 81.63 percent, the second dose to 65.00 percent, and the third dose or booster to 19.82 percent of the recipients.
The first case of COVID-19 in Indonesia was confirmed in March 2020. According to data from the COVID-19 Handling Task Force, as of October 30, 2022, the nation has recorded 6,490,622 COVID-19 cases, 6,307,481 recoveries, and 158,597 deaths.
Meanwhile, as of October 30, Lampung province has recorded a total of 76,116 COVID-19 infections, 71,746 recoveries, and 4,204 deaths, the task force’s data showed.
Source: Antara News