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Covid-19 pandemic limit human mobility and interaction among others. This limitation includes attending a health center to do health checking. The Indonesian government urges citizens to check their health through electronic health, also known as e-Health. The use of e-Health is to give basic information about general health and simple checking on Covid-19 symptoms. The elderly is those who are vulnerable to Covid-19 infection and accessing e-Health would be an answer for the elderly to access basic health facilities and information during the pandemic. Additionally, the emergence of the metaverse raises the possibility to integrate the application of the e-Health system into it, to simplify and integrate the data of users who have e-Health accounts. Unfortunately, the ability of the elderly to access information technology is still questioned. This research tries to capture the perception and the acceptance of elderly people in accessing e-Health and using metaverse in Indonesia. The study will be conducted using a quasi-experimental method in the City of Surakarta. Respondents will be asked to fill out questionnaires about their understanding of e-Health and metaverse before and after treatment conducted by researchers. The anticipated result indicated that the elderly in Surakarta finds difficulties in accessing e-Health and metaverse due to a lack of information on how to use it. This finding indicates that government policy on e-Health system use is not accompanied by acceptance strategies for the elderly, as a vulnerable group to Covid-19 infection. Moreover, when the e-Health system is combined with the utilization of metaverse. © 2022 IEEE.
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During the covid-19 pandemic, medical waste has been a concern to the sustainability issues. Comparing government awareness is critical to portray the government policy on combating covid-19 and maintaining environmental sustainability at the same time. This paper discussed how the covid-19 waste is managed between two countries: Indonesia and Taiwan. The two countries are chosen because of their contrasting condition where the prior has a high rate of infection while, on the other hand, the latter has a relatively low rate of infection. This study focuses on literature analysis that is available on the research database. Specific keyword search such as “environmental policy and covid-19 and Indonesia and Taiwan” is used in the search engine. The results indicated the significant difference in both countries in managing covid-19 waste. Further results are discussed in the paper.
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The Covid-19 pandemic brings two sides to the environment. On one side, it reduces air pollution due to travel and work limitations but on the other hand, medical waste increases. This contradictory situation on the environment has been studied by research all around the world. This study is trying to map the concern of experts on environmental issues during Covid-19. This paper conducts a systematic literature review from prominent databases to portray the environmental issues that emerged during the Covid-19 Pandemic from a policy perspective. Unique keywords that combine environment, covid-19, and policy filtered the literature available in the research database. No less than 152 literature were collected and extracted using PRISMA approach. The result indicates very limited policy issued by the government to protect the environment for the post-covid era.