Jokowi: Covid-19 Pandemic Will Probably End Soon

3rd October 2022 – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) said that the government is open to the
opportunity to declare that the Covid-19 pandemic to be over in the near future. This is told during
the launch of the Inclusive Partnership Movement for Upgrading Micro, Small, and Medium
Enterprises (MSMEs) on Monday (3/10).

“The pandemic has indeed started to subside, maybe we will soon declare the pandemic is over,”
said Jokowi from the Presidential Secretariat’s YouTube channel.

Nevertheless, Jokowi reminded that the global economic situation must still be considered due to
the post-pandemic economic recovery having yet to return normally but rather, worsened. He said
that it’s not only caused by the pandemic that’s been going on for two years or more but also the
war happening in Ukraine.

He said that the current world’s economy is in a really bad position, as the uncertainty is really high.
All countries, even developed countries, are in a very difficult position right now.

Despite that, he is still grateful that the economic recovery in Indonesia in the second quarter of
2022 reached 5,44 percent. He’s convinced that the number can increase in the third quarter.

Previously, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus said that the end of the pandemic is near based on the data on Covid-19 cases in the
world which have drastically decreased since 2020.

According to Ghebreyesus, Covid-19 has killed millions of people and infected 606 million since its
first came at the end of 2019. Last week, the number fell to its lowest level since March 2020.

The number of weekly deaths due to Covid-19 reported by The Guardian reached the lowest mark
since March 2020.

“We have never been in a better position to end the pandemic,” said Ghebreyesus, “We are not
there yet, but the end is in sight.”