News Report - Reading Practice for learners III.pdf

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1. FABYAN YUSINTO
BREAKING NEWS

2. The first Corona case in
Indonesia appeared exactly 2
years ago, namely March 2
2020. Since then the addition
of daily cases in Indonesia has
experienced ups and downs
over the last 2 years.
The emergence of the Delta
variant, up to the latest
Omicron, has also influenced
data on Corona cases in
Indonesia. Most recently,
Corona cases in Indonesia
over the last 2 years totaled
5,564,448 cases.
The following is a flashback of
the first Corona case in
Indonesia after it was
discovered on March 2 2020:
The first Corona case in
Indonesia was first announced
on March 2 2020 by President
Joko Widodo (Jokowi)
together with Health Minister
Terawan Agus Putranto,
Minister of State Secretary
Pratikno and Cabinet
Secretary Pramono Anung.
The government confirmed
cases 1 and 2 which happened
to a mother (64) and her
daughter (31) in Depok, West
Java. Both of them were
infected with Corona from
Japanese citizens who had
come to Indonesia in February
2020.
MARCH 2 2020:
FIRST CORONA
CASE IN INDONESIA
ANNOUNCED

3. March 10 2020 Becomes a National
Emergency
Branding 01 90%
Branding 02 80%
Branding 03 85%

4. A month later, namely on April 10 2020, the spread of
Corona cases in Indonesia reached all provinces. At
that time, there were 3,512 positive cases of COVID-19
throughout Indonesia.
At the same time, starting April 10 2020, DKI Jakarta
Governor Anies Baswedan also stipulated provisions
for Large-Scale Social Restrictions (PSBB) in DKI
Jakarta. At that time, office activities were stopped,
school buildings were closed, online motorbike taxis
were limited, so crowds were not allowed.

5. After the first Corona case in Indonesia,
Jokowi declared the COVID-19 pandemic in
Indonesia a national non-natural disaster
through Presidential Decree Number 12 of
2020.

6. 01.
The government officially prohibits
returning home for Eid in the midst
of the Covid-19 pandemic. The ban
takes effect from Friday, April 24
2020.
The homecoming ban initially
applied to the TNI-Polri and ASN.
However, Jokowi then banned the
general public too.

7. DKI Jakarta is implementing a
transitional PSBB in its area. The
transitional PSBB will be
implemented for 14 days, namely
from 5-18 June 2020.
However, then the transitional PSBB
was extended.

8. A number of hospitals in DKI Jakarta are
starting to fill up. Daily COrona cases also
continue to rise.
At that time, the COVID-19
Task Force said the isolation
room bed capacity used had
reached 69 percent, the ICU
room was 77 percent
occupied.

9. Approaching the half-year
moment of COVID-19, Jokowi
said, based on data up to August,
recovery from COVID-19 in Indonesia
was 70.21%, active cases 23.7%, death
rate 4.2%. However, RI still needs to be
careful.