Awaiting Quick Action from Task Force in Dealing with Pandemic
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) will coordinate the rapid reaction team which, among other things, is tasked with tracing people who may have been in contact with people infected by COVID-1 9.
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An officer sprays disinfectant at Istiqlal Mosque in Central Jakarta on Friday (13/3/2020). The task to prevent the spread of the coronavirus at the mosque involved 35 people from the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), the military and state-owned railway company PT KAI. Istiqlal Mosque continued to hold Friday prayers amid the outbreak in Indonesia.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS - President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has stated that he will lead the task force in handling COVID-19. The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) will coordinate the rapid reaction team which, among other things, is tasked with tracing people who may have been in contact with people infected by COVID-1 9.
"I will lead the task force myself. The BNPB works with the rapid reaction team. During the recent evacuation [of Indonesian nationals] from Wuhan [where COVID-19 first appeared and became endemic in China], in just two days we decided the isolation spot in Natuna with the help of the TNI [the Indonesian Military],” the President said after reviewing COVID- 19 prevention efforts at Terminal 3 of the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Tangerang, on Friday.