Banjarmasin, S Kalimantan (ANTARA) - The South Kalimantan Police's Directorate of Security Intelligence has limited crowd permits to prevent the coronavirus (COVID-19) which is now become the larger outbreak in the country.
"Based on the leader's instruction and to follow up the direction of the central government, we severy limiting requests for activities of gathering a lot of people for now," said Head of Administration Service of the directorate Comr Mohammad Fihim here on Thursday (March 19, 2020).
He explained that this is a form of National Police's commitment to supporting the government's effort to suppress the spread of the COVID-19.
Although in South Kalimantan there have been no coronavirus positive patients so far, the Police Chief Insp.Gen. Yazid Fanani has instructed all staff to take a quick step and readily anticipate them.
"The coronaVirus spreads very quickly and without symptoms to people who suffer from it. If there is a mass crown, it is fear that some infected and eventually transmit it to others," Fihim, who represented the Director of Security Intelligence Sr Comr Hajat Mabrur Bujangga, pointed out.
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It is hoped that people understand that the South Kalimantan Regional Police's policy is in the interest of broader humanity. While other police services, such as SKCK, proceed as usual.
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Previously, there were six patients treated in the Regional General Hospital of Ulin Ulin Banjarmasin with the status of under surveillance (PDP). Four of them were reported to be in stable and improving condition, one person with symptoms of shortness of breath and body temperature of 36,7 degree, and one person died on Wednesday (March 18, 2020).
The hospital has not been able to ascertain the cause of death while waiting for laboratory results.
"The temporary information was triggered by pneumonia and diabetes mellitus. When arrived, the patient's condition was in shortness of breath, tension decreased, body temperature reached 38 degrees Celcius. Previously the patient was treated in a hospital in Yogyakarta," said Head of South Kalimantan Health Agency Muslim.
