Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan joined the virtual launch of the Proud of Indonesian Products Movement (Gernas BBI) and asked Sulawesi’s local governments to encourage tourist attractions to use the PeduliLindungi application. “I asked the governor to encourage all tourist destinations to use PeduliLindungi, so people infected by the Delta variant of COVID-19 do not travel. If they do, they can transmit the virus to anyone,” Pandjaitan said while attending the virtual launch of Gernas BBI, named, “Sulawesi’s Rainbow,” on Thursday.
Class A hospitals should be available in every five super-priority tourist destinations, so visitors can travel comfortably, he added.
During the event, the minister stressed the handling of COVID-19 is currently integrated, and all relevant data will be stored in the PeduliLindungi application.
“People who travel will have to register on PeduliLindungi. Firstly, the goal is to detect whether a person is already vaccinated or not. Secondly, it is whether this person tests positive for COVID-19 or not. The application can then simultaneously trace people affected by COVID-19 and so on,” he explained. The use of masks and hand washing should be a culture, as both are key to controlling the transmission of COVID-19, Pandjaitan affirmed.
“To be honest, after reading many scientific literature and various expert opinions in the country and abroad, we have not figured out when COVID-19 will end,” he remarked.
The government is targeting 200 million Indonesians to be vaccinated by the end of 2021, although it is not easy and requires the cooperation of all parties, he noted, stating, “I asked Manado’s people and governor to help sort it out together.”
“We will also manage Gernas BBI, as it would mean nothing if the vaccination campaign and the PeduliLindungi app are not maintained. They are both very connected,” he said.
Source: Antara News