Padang (ANTARA) - Governor of W Sumatra Irwan Prayitno said the West Sumatra Provincial Government has conducted a swab test for tourism actors in an effort to break the chain of the spread of COVID-19.
It was conveyed by the Governor of W Sumatra Irwan Prayitno after the OPD Meeting on the economy field in an effort to recover in the new normal, productive and safe order for COVID-19, Saturday.
The Governor said that the West Sumatra Provincial Government had carried out tracing or detected people who were potentially affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, in the form of implementation of the new normal by reaching out to the tourism community.
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The governor stated that currently the detection of the spread of COVID-19 through swab tests by the Unand Faculty of Medicine (FK) laboratory has reached 27 thousand, approximately 0.6 percent of the population of W Sumatra.
"In the progress of anticipating the spread of COVID-19 in W Sumatra, we did tracing more better compared to other regions and we targeted 1 percent around 50 thousand where the strength of the swab test conducted by Dr. Andani's team has more than 1,500 per day," said Irwan Prayitno.
The governor added, currently the implementation of a new normal order, how to enter during the economic recovery period, the community was aware of the importance of protecting themselves with the COVID-19 protocol.
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"In this new normal implementation, our society is able to anticipate the spread of COVID-19, even though life activities are normal but still wearing masks, washing hands and keeping a distance," he said.
According to the governor, he belived that in the new normal era with the great potential of FK Unand's laboratory, it would be able to anticipate the spread of COVID with swab test activities, for everyone who came, businessman, tests were conducted in the region that felt was negative.
"Rapid detection of the spread of the corona virus will be able to break the chain. Therefore, field officers must be serious. So that they will be able to provide security, reduce anxiety and worry about the COVID for the community in carrying out activities," said Irwan.
Transleted by: Mutiara Ramadhani
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