Eid Al-Fitr ebb estimated from May 16 to 20, government prepares to prevent transmission of Covid-19

medialnews, JAKARTA – The return flow of Eid al-Fitr 1442 H is expected to occur at H + 3 Eid and H + 7 Eid or around May 16 and 20, 2021.

The government has prepared a number of measures to anticipate a spike in new Covid-19 cases, including increasing random testing for road users of private vehicles and transport vehicles on toll roads, arteries leading to smaller roads in residential areas.

In addition to forming a special working group in Lampung province.

The spokesperson for the Covid-19 Handling Task Force, Professor Wiku Adisasmito, stressed that this anticipation had been carried out due to an increase in the escalation of positive cases in almost all provinces of the island of Sumatra.

The current condition in May 2021, the contribution of national cases from the island of Java decreased by 11.06 percent.

In contrast, on the island of Sumatra, the increase was 27.22 percent.

In the death rate, the island of Java decreased by 16.07 percent and vice versa, the island of Sumatra increased to 17.18 percent.

As a follow-up, the head of the working group on the handling of Covid-19 published letter No. 46/05/2021 concerning the anticipation of community displacements on the occasion of the ebb of Eid Al-Fitr 2021 .

“In this letter, the regional government, in particular the provinces of the island of Sumatra, must carefully and carefully examine the documents of travelers in times of ebb,” he said at the joint press conference on the anticipation of the mobility of the population after Eid 1442 H.

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In accordance with Circular No. 13 of 2021, the COVID-19 free letter includes the results of the PCR test, antigen sampling or GeNose.