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Stay Alert of Covid-19 by Social Distancing

Mar 23, 2020
3 Minutes

During the time this article was written, there have been 164 countries amongst the world impacted by COVID-19. Based on World Health Organization’s calculation, the numbers of patients who have been positively tested of COVID-19 are nearly 200 thousand cases all around the world, including Indonesia with the number of positive suspect currently keep increasing. 

Notable health experts suggest that everyone should be aware by doing preventives steps toward this virus by maintaining self-cleanliness during every activity. Washing your hand before and after doing every activity is probably one of the most famous campaigns that has been talked everywhere. Aside from that, experts also suggest us to do social distancing to stop the possible transmission of COVID-19. By doing so, it is expected that the number of infected people will be decreased while healthcare and medical researcher able to give their best to work about this virus.

Indonesia’s president also aware of this by suggesting social distance as a prevention of COVID-19 transmission. Social distance is basically a way of limiting our social life. For example, if you need to go out to public places or crowds, you need to stay away from other people within the distance of 1,5 meters at the least. Besides, it means that you should do all activities at home if possible to reduce the possibility of physical contact with other people. You also need to limit all kinds of meetings with family, friends and acquaintances, and better to avoid it if it’s not really that important. Here are several things that you can do as a social distancing.

Work from Home
The first social distancing that you could do is by doing all of your work from home if possible by utilizing internet network and technology without having to go to your office. By staying at home, you can reduce the risk of transmission, and it’s the best way to do if your work is a flexible-type one. 

Online Meeting
Aside from work, school and universities are directly affected by social distancing. Therefore, schools and universities are using video conference as a way to communicate on each class so that all of the materials can be discussed online. Video conference is also the best option for office workers who need to do meetings. Doing online meetings is a way to exchanging information for you and other people while reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission. 

Postponing Events
A lot of big event vendors are postponing their event, which is affected by the social distancing as well. Some of them even cancelled the event, which is actually great because crowds are the most susceptible place to transmit COVID-19 virus. Therefore, if you’re planning to go to any big event, you better think twice beforehand. There are other things that you can do such as video streaming from home. 

Switching to Cashless Transactions
As mentioned above, social distancing means to prevent all physical contact if it’s not crucial. Therefore, switching into cashless transactions is also the best way to initiate social distancing. By doing so, you will be able to prevent any physical contact with other people. 

PermataBank provides mobile application PermataMobileX which can support social distancing activities. This mobile application enables you to shop, transfer and pay all of your expenses online such as electric and other bills. 

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