The Merauke volunteer community continues to move against Covid-19

The Merauke volunteer community continues to move against Covid-19

The Covid-19 Merauke Volunteer Community continues to hold various activities, including conducting disinfectant removal in a number of public places in Merauke Regency, Papua. The initiative was carried out following the presence of three corona positive patients and a number of Patients in Oversight or PDP who were being treated at the Merauke Regional General Hospital.

One of the initiators of the Covid-19 Merauke Volunteer Community, Adi Muslimin, said the volunteers had sprayed disinfectants at the Pasar Wamanggu Terminal, pick-up car base, and a number of other places. Volunteers also garner support and prepare jerry cans

The volunteers prepared jerry cans to make handwashing media, donated boiled chicken eggs for medical personnel at Merauke Regional Hospital, and gave hundreds of masks to garden traders, workers, micro, small and medium business groups, as well as online motorcycle taxi drivers. . The volunteer activities received support from a number of private companies in Merauke, as well as individual community donations.

Adi hopes the movement, which is led by the Merauke Covid-19 Community of Volunteers, will raise everyone's awareness to prevent the transmission of the corona virus in Merauke. "We also socialize the dangers of the corona virus to grassroots communities in a number of places," said Adi Muslimin, Saturday (3/28/2020).

One of the residents of Merauke, Yohanes (35), appreciated the initiative of the Merauke Covid-19 Community Volunteer. Yohanes assessed that the volunteers moved quickly to respond to the situation of the Covid-19 pandemic handling in Merauke. "We are grateful, because in addition to getting information about the corona virus, [the volunteers] also gave masks for free," Yohanes said.