Facing the complicated developments of the Covid-19 epidemic, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has requested to promote the use of advanced technology in epidemic prevention and control.
Always wear a mask, open the Bluezone app, declare health when going to public places. Accordingly, for technologies that are promoting effective epidemic prevention and control, it is necessary to change and switch from voluntary encouragement to compulsory installation of some basic applications. THREE “Attack” against COVID-19 Currently, there are three “attacks” to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic: Increasing testing on a large scale, implementing a vaccine strategy and applying technology for tracing. In particular, the use of technology chaired by the Ministry of Information and Communications is promoting effectively. Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Huy Dung said that the new approach from the Prime Minister’s point of view is a harmonious combination between prevention and attack. Previously, medical declaration applications for epidemic prevention and control, and support for tracing only recommended people to use, but now will become mandatory. Second, anti-epidemic data sources must be centralized in one processing hub. Previously, because people declared through different applications, the data was scattered. Now the data must be centralized so that advanced and modern technology can be applied to perform the analysis to produce the required results. Mr. Nguyen Truong Nam, Deputy Director of the Information Technology Department (Ministry of Health), said that for the health declaration for the entire population, people can declare through 3 applications: NCOVI, Bluezone and Vietnam Health Declaration. Specifically, Vietnam Health Declaration is a software of the Military Telecommunications Industry Corporation (Viettel), so the declared data is stored at Viettel. Data declared by people on Bluezone (of Bkav Technology Group) and NCOVI (of Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group – VNPT) are stored centrally at the Department of Informatization (Ministry of Information and Communications). After being collected, the medical declaration data will be collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in provinces, agencies and units according to their competence. This data is used for control, analysis and case tracing. Meanwhile, many units still use paper declaration and electronic declaration in parallel. Faced with the fact that medical declaration data is still scattered, the Information Technology Department (Ministry of Health) is working with units to promote data interoperability and build a centralized medical declaration database. central, connected. INSTALLATION AND USE OF THE APP WILL BE REQUIRED According to experience from previous infections, the next epidemic is more difficult, complicated, unpredictable than the previous one, the consequences are more severe, the treatment is more difficult, and the impact is worse. At the Government Standing Meeting on Covid-19 epidemic prevention a few days ago, the Prime Minister noted: currently the number of new infections and deaths on the world epidemic map continues to increase; illegal entry and residence tend to be more in recent times; appeared subjective, negligent and unwary thoughts of many localities, agencies, units and people; centralized isolation management, after isolation (when returning to the locality) is still inadequate; The new strain of the SARS-Cov-2 virus spreads quickly, is difficult to detect, and has complicated developments. It is predicted that the epidemic situation will continue to be complicated, it will be long, it is not possible to confirm the time when the epidemic will end. Therefore, we must be ready to deal with the epidemic at the highest level, and we must live safely while the epidemic is still around us. Following the direction of the Prime Minister, the Ministry of Information and Communications has issued the document “Guide to use the set of solutions to support Covid-19 prevention, control and tracing in the community”. This set of solutions includes Bluezone (a close contact warning application for suspected Covid-19 patients), NCOVI (voluntary health declaration management system), medical declaration for people on entry, and a system to record people coming and going to public places (via QR code scanning) and Covid-19 safe anti-epidemic map system. Currently, there are 9 provinces and cities nationwide that have implemented Covid-19 epidemiological information mapping software (called CovidMaps). The CovidMaps map allows real-time monitoring of the epidemic situation in Da Nang, Bac Giang, Vinh Phuc, Bac Ninh, Quang Ninh, Quang Nam, Gia Lai, Phu Yen and Lang Son. The Covid-19 epidemiological information map (CovidMaps) helps the community to visually monitor epidemiological information of local cases via the Internet, the government has more digital technology solutions to serve management and control. practice in epidemic prevention and control. According to the information in the document “Guidelines for using a set of solutions to support Covid-19 prevention, control and tracing in the community,” if 60% of adults install the Bluezone application on their phones, the reported data about cases of close contact, contact with people with Covid-19 will reach an almost absolute level of accuracy. Therefore, in order to promote effectiveness in epidemic prevention and control, it is necessary to join hands to use and voluntarily declare accurately information of the people and the community. Many people think that installing and using the application will become a mandatory requirement, like wearing a mask. For industrial parks and factories, the Ministry of Information and Communications has proposed that people working in industrial parks, factories and enterprises must install the Bluezone application and the NCOVI medical declaration application. .
At public places, offices need to scan QR Codes to be able to collect digital data on the system to record arrivals or departures at public places. In addition, any citizen when going to crowded places needs to install the Bluezone application, to be able to detect close contact with infected people (data already stored on the system). The Government Office issued Official Letter No. 3440/VPCP-KGVX to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Information and Communications with the content considering the proposal of the Ministry of Information and Communications on the implementation of a number of information technology applications and Connecting surveillance cameras to support the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic. Persons subject to medical supervision and isolation must declare mandatory information on the application. This mandatory also requires the awareness of the community not only to install the application on the mobile device, but to enable the connection for the application to work. Moreover, using Bluezone and turning on Bluetooth when going to public places, when exposed to large numbers of people, will help people protect themselves and the community, and at the same time help in zoning out the epidemic and tracing it quickly. . When a Covid-19 patient is detected, only those at high risk are quarantined instead of isolating everyone involved. The Ministry of Information and Communications has just sent an official dispatch to the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities and the Departments of Information and Communications of the provinces and cities about the implementation of the surveillance camera system at the agencies. centralized isolation facility to prevent Covid-19.
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