"The number of Omicron cases is increasing. Hence, face-to-face learning is currently being evaluated," he noted in a press statement on Friday.
Kamil asserted that the West Java provincial government will not act rashly and always make measured decisions based on data.
The governor admitted to having instructed every district and city to review the implementation of face-to-face learning in their respective areas, especially monitoring COVID-19 transmission in the school environment.
He remarked that Bogor City had been allowed to halt the face-to-face learning temporarily due to the relatively high transmission rate of COVID-19 in the city.
"(Face-to-face learning in) some (areas) had been halted while still adopting a wait and watch approach with regard to the developments regarding (COVID-19) cases because we make decisions that are always measured based on data," he affirmed.
Currently, a spike in the number of COVID-19 cases in the province had been largely recorded in the agglomeration areas, such as Bogor, Depok, Bekasi and Greater Bandung.
To this end, he remarked that the handling efforts would be focused on those regions.
According to Kamil, the changes in policy will mainly occur in the areas of Bogor, Depok, Bekasi and Greater Bandung, including the decisions regarding face-to-face learning at schools.
"Most likely, the policy changes will mostly occur in those regions," he remarked.
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Recently, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) has allowed regions, with level 2 and level 1 Public Activity Restrictions (PPKM), to adjust the implementation of face-to-face learning in line with the developments in the COVID-19 situation. This step was taken due to the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia.
The first case of COVID-19 was confirmed in Indonesia in March 2020. According to data provided by the task force, as of February 3, 2022, at least 4,414,483 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the country, while 4,154,797 people have recovered, and 144,411 people have succumbed to the virus.
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