Gov't: COVID-19 in Indonesia Has Become Endemic

Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Airlangga Hartarto said that the COVID-19 situation has become endemic. It was due to the case decreasing for almost a year.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, the COVID-19 situation is now on Level 1, he said. Airlangga also said that Indonesia was already on Level 1 for 12 months.

"It means, as a nation, the pandemic has become endemic and it is already on Level 1," Airlangga Hartarto said in the Merdeka Palace on Wednesday (21/12/2022).

According to Airlangga, the daily case of COVID-19 is around 2,000 for the last few days. Therefore, the government will begin to prepare for the end of the Implementation of Community Activity Restrictions (PPKM).

"Of course there is a preparation that will be done by the Ministry of Health, such as sero-survey, but Insya Allah it can be done," he explained.

Earlier, President Jokowi said that the government will end the Implementation of Community Activity Restrictions, which are the regulations made to handle COVID-19 in Indonesia due to the decreasing case of COVID-19.

"And today, yesterday, the case is at 2,000. And maybe later by the end of the year, we will declare the end of our PSBB (Large-Scale Social Restrictions), PPKM," Jokowi said.