JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The West Java administration is still awaiting the results of the rapid mass testing for Covid-19 currently being conducted in the region before deciding what action to take next to contain the spread of the respiratory disease.
"We will subsequently create a disease distribution map from the test results. The map will then direct us to the next path, whether there will be an isolation, blockade or semi-lockdown," West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil said on Friday .West Java is currently conducting rapid Covid-10 tests on about 20,000 individuals in the province who are divided into three categories.
The last category includes citizens who show Covid-19 symptoms of fever, cough, diarrhoea and shortness of breath, among other things. Before exercising the rapid mass testing, the administration had conducted the polymerase chain reaction tests on 500 people. Ten of them tested positive, including three high ranking West Java officials, namely Bogor Mayor Bima Arya, Bandung deputy mayor Yana Mulyana and Karawang Regent Cellica Nurrachadiana.
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