Deputy Mayor of Tanjungpinang Asks Prayer to the Society for the Recovery of Mayor Syahrul

TRIBUNBATAM.id - Deputy Mayor of Tanjungpinang Rahma invited all people to provide support and prayers to the Mayor of Tanjungpinang, Syahrul. 

"Let's pray for the recovery of the Mayor, who is currently undergoing treatment at the hospital," she wrote via WhatsApp message to his staff on Monday (4/13/2020) yesterday.

Rahma also asked her staff to continue to carry out their duties properly. She believes the task force and related OPD can work optimally and continue to strive to deal with Covid-19 in Tanjung Pinang City. 

The same invitation was also conveyed by the Regional Secretary of the City of Tanjungpinang, Teguh Ahmad Syafari. He asked the people of Tanjungpinang City to pray for the Mayor of Tanjungpinang who is currently being treated at RSUP Raja Ahmad Tabib, Tanjungpinang.

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Meanwhile, Spokesperson for the Coordination of the Covid-19 Handling of the Riau Islands, Tjetjep Yudiana said the PCR test results were received on Sunday (04/12/2020) night and stated that the Mayor of Tanjungpinang was positive in Covid-19. 

Tjetjep explained, all people who had close contact with Syahrul were designated as people in monitoring (ODP). They have also carried out rapid test checks and swab sampling.

In line with that, Spokesperson of the Tanjung Pinang Covid-19 Handling Acceleration Task Force, Rustam said, had anticipated the spread by conducting rapid tests on 18 people and the results were declared negative. Meanwhile, nine people who also had close contact with Mayor Syahrul have taken swab samples and the results will be known in the next few days. 

"Alhamdulillah, rapid tests have been conducted on 18 people who had contact with him, all the results were negative and swab tests were also carried out on 9 people," Rustam said. (Tribunbatam.id/endrakaputra) 

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