Tribratanews.polri.go.id - Tanjung Pinang. Bangka Belitung Police Chief, Pol. Inspector General Anang Syarif Hidayat asked each village to prepare a funeral team equipped with PPE so that dead bodies can be buried with the SOPs that have been set.
The Regional Police Chief also conveyed that village heads and their apparatus should actively check on their residents so that the community is controlled and knows their condition.
The Regional Police Chief will also instruct his staff, both the chief of the police and the chief of the police, to assign his personnel to carry out surveillance in all hospitals dealing with COVID-19 cases to avoid unwanted incidents.
"The provision of rapid test kits and antigens will be given to each village, use them as well as possible and if there are obstacles in the field so that they can be reported so that we can find a solution. This should not happen, for example in Bangka there are people who forcefully pick up corpses that are confirmed to be COVID-19 and finally their families are confirmed to have COVID-19, if there are still things like this so that decisive action can be taken so that it does not happen again," he explained.
Finally, the Regional Police Chief also conveyed that he, together with the governor and the Military Regional Command, had agreed to assist the health department and gave an appeal so that the treatment of confirmed patients can be handled as well as possible.'