JAKARTA: Given a clear bill of health, the 237 citizens and one American spouse of an Indonesian national from Wuhan and other cities in China were finally released on Sunday (Feb 16) from a 14-day quarantine in Natuna, Riau Islands.
Forty-two members of the evacuation team and five Indonesian Embassy staffers from Beijing who assisted the operation were also released from quarantine beginning on Saturday.The government evacuated 243 people — comprising 237 Indonesian nationals, a foreigner and five embassy staffers — on Feb 2 from Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, as well as other cities in Hubei province following the emergence of the novel coronavirus.
“The Health Minister will accompany the people flying to Jakarta, while I am staying here to meet with the local residents, as President has ordered, ” Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Muhadjir Effendy said in Natuna. Many were welcomed home by local officials, including East Kalimantan Governor Isran Noor, who flew out to Jakarta to escort evacuees from the province on the last leg of their journey.Health minister Terawan said the evacuees were also given a letter that declared they had tested negative for COVID-19. The health agencies in their place of origin would continue to monitor the evacuees after they had returned home.
Paranietharan also said that the evacuees could freely mingle in their communities once they got home."They’re perfectly fine; there’s no need to worry about them, ” he said during a ceremony marking the evacuees' release in Natuna.
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