Today (December 1), the Indonesian Ministry of the Interior said that Jakarta’s Governor Anies Baswedan and Deputy Governor Ahmad Riza Patria could have spread Covid-19 from their staff. The two leaders are in quarantine and will continue to run the work online. At present, all close family members, family members and the Governor’s office have been tested for Covid-19 by PCR.
The Governor is the latest high-ranking official in the Jakarta city government with Covid-19. In September, Jakarta Administrative Secretary, Saefullah also tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and died a few days after his test results due to respiratory failure.
According to data from Indonesia’s Covid-19 handling task force, the capital Jakarta is currently the locality with the highest number of Covid-19 cases in the country with 136,861 cases of Covid-19, of which 2,660 cases died. Hospitals in Jakarta are facing the risk of overcrowding.