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President Joko Widodo said that the main focus of the government's work at the moment is to deal with public health problems due to the COVID-19 pandemic, then economic recovery.

"Once again, I would like to order the ranks of the Committee for COVID-19 and Economic Recovery, the Minister of Health, the National Army, and the National Police, so that matters relating to COVID-19 really become our focus, and the economy (affairs) will follow," the President said at the State Palace, Jakarta, on Monday.

"This means that our focus remains, number one health, is handling COVID-19. Because the key is here," he said when opening the Plenary Cabinet Session on Health Management and Economic Recovery for Strengthening Reforms in 2021.

In a session attended by Vice President Ma'ruf Amin, ministers, and heads of national institutions, the President emphasized that if the public health condition improves, the economic condition will also improve. Handling public health, he said, was the key to recovery from a crisis because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Once again, if the handling of COVID-19 is good, if the health is good, the economy will also improve," he said. He added that the acceleration of efforts to recover the domestic economy very much depends on the results of implementing policies on handling the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Do not let us have health matters, this COVID-19 affair has not been handled properly, we have started, restarted, in the economic sector. This is also very dangerous," he said.

According to data from the Covid-19 Task Force, as of Sunday, the number of COVID-19 cases in Indonesia reached 194,109 cases with 138,575 patients recovering from Covid-19 infection and 8,025 patients who died. (Antaranews)