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- How is the quarantine process for cities exposed to COVID-19?
- 1,024,298
- 831,330
- 28,855
- Italy quarantines 11 cities to prevent COVID-19
- South Korea closes Daegu City
- China Closes Access to the City of Wuhan
President Jokowi announced the first two positive cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia, this patient is known to reside in Depok City, West Java. With the infection of these two people, will the government carry out city quarantine to prevent the transmission of COVID-19?
Some time after the announcement of a positive case of COVID-19 in Indonesia, West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil said West Java was in a state of alert. People flock to shop for everything they need. From masks, cleaning tools, to food ingredients.
In addition to being careful about contracting COVID-19, they also buy groceries because they are worried about it lockdown or city quarantine. But what exactly is the condition for a city to be quarantined? Experiences from cities in other countries may be illustrative.
How is the quarantine process for cities exposed to COVID-19?
The COVID-19 outbreak is a new, highly contagious pathogen, is rapidly spreading, and its impact is not only on health but is also thought to be capable of causing major economic and social impacts.
Research and understanding of the COVID-19 outbreak is still evolving. However, this unfinished understanding also demands extraordinary preparedness from the government in dealing with and eliminating COVID-19.
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 outbreak, until Monday (3/3) Indonesia has examined 339 suspected people, two of whom have tested positive. As directed by WHO, even though only two cases have been confirmed, Indonesia must set a strong alarm to prevent further transmission.
Currently the Ministry of Health team is still in process tracking, tracing traces of people who have had direct contact with positive patients with COVID-19. The government has not felt the need to quarantine the city of Depok, a place where positive COVID-19 patients are found
The Director General of Disease Prevention and Control at the Indonesian Ministry of Health, Anung Sugihantono, said that until now there had been no directions to carry out an area isolation. There are no official indicators issued by health authorities regarding city quarantine when an outbreak occurs.
However, countries with the severe spread of the COVID-19 outbreak have decided to carry out city quarantine. This is done based on the policies of each country. The number of indications of victims also varies.
COVID-19 Outbreak updates Country: IndonesiaData1,024,298
Confirmed831,330
Recovered28,855
DeathDistribution MapThe following countries have decided to carry out city quarantine or lockdown:
Italy quarantines 11 cities to prevent COVID-19
Italy announced it was pursuing a city quarantine on Friday. This decision was made by the Italian government after the number of positive cases of COVID-19 reached 100 patients.
Italy decided to quarantine 11 cities. Namely Codogno, Castiglione d'Adda, Casalpusterlengo, Fombio, Maleo, Somaglia, Bertonico, Terranova dei Passerini, Castel Gerundo, and San Fiorano in the Province of Lombardy and Vo 'Euganeo in the Province of Veneto.
The Italian government says this is an urgent step to stop the outbreak from spreading furthermore.
With the isolation of these cities, access to and from them is very tightly restricted. People were asked to stay indoors.
As a follow-up action, the Italian government said it was considering "extraordinary steps" to combat the coronavirus following the deaths of two citizens.
Positive cases of COVID-19 in Italy have increased dramatically, as per Tuesday (3/3) the total cases reached 2036 with 52 victims dying. Several other cities in Italy also canceled annual festival events such as the Venice Carnival and several other festivals.
South Korea closes Daegu City
The spread of the COVID-19 outbreak to South Korea has been one of the most shocking. COVID-19 is spreading rapidly in South Korea and cases have increased dramatically in just a few days.
As of February 20, the total positive cases of COVID-19 in South Korea numbered 104, that number had multiplied four days later to 700 cases. Among them, seven victims died.
The South Korean government raised the status of the outbreak to one alert. One of the efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 was carried out, one of which was to quarantine the city of Daegu.
A number of public facilities, such as libraries and schools were closed, everyone was encouraged to stay indoors.
Daegu is the city where a positive case of COVID-19 was detected in South Korea. Here it is found superspreader in a Daegu area church, South Korea. The rate of transmission carried out by superspreader higher than ordinary people, so that positive cases of COVID-19 are increasing rapidly.
Most of the cases center around the Shincheonji Jesus Church, a religious sect in the southern city of Daegu.
Currently, the total number of COVID-19 cases that have infected South Korea has reached 5186, of which 28 people have died and 34 people have been declared cured, while the rest are still being treated.
China Closes Access to the City of Wuhan
The city of Wuhan as the main center of the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak is the first to carry out city quarantine measures. Wuhan is closed off from the outside world, access from dann to Wuhan is restricted.
Foreign nationals who want to leave Wuhan must be evacuated by the government through strict procedures, including Indonesia.
This is the first time in modern history that a country has locked 11 million people in a city. The media give the title "Wuhan Lockdown”.
Cities around Wuhan have also carried out city isolation as did the cities of Wenzhou and Zhejiang. The city only allows one person in a family to leave the house, and it is limited to two days.
This response was praised by the WHO, they called this policy even outside of China's own guidelines, but a good responsive decision.
China is also swiftly structuring health service transmission chain arrangements in a variety of settings from large cities to remote districts.
WHO also asked that what China has lived through in dealing with COVID-19 can be used as lessons for other countries.
"China's steps in taking uncompromising and tough steps to contain the transmission of the COVID-19 virus are important lessons for the global," the WHO wrote in the report. WHO -China Joint Mission COVID-19.
