Leaders of the Office of the Provincial People’s Committee, the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, the Department of Health received and presented letters of thanks to the TML volunteer group. Through reference and research from available samples on the domestic market and some countries such as Korea and Japan, the group has focused on improving equipment to suit the actual conditions in Vietnam. According to the design of the sampling room with a width of 1.1 m, a length of 2.2 m, a height of 2.3 m, equipped with air conditioners and UV lights to help clean the air inside after each shift. A representative of the TLM team instructs medical staff to use the testing room. In addition, the room is equipped with an electronic speaker to help medical staff easily exchange information with the person being sampled outside. Medical staff can flexibly use specialized rubber gloves or medical gloves to conduct sampling. It is known that the group has produced 15 rooms so far, of which 5 rooms are given to Bac Giang province, 5 rooms in Hanoi, 3 rooms in Bac Ninh, and 2 rooms in Thai Binh. Medical staff inspecting equipment for taking samples for testing. Leaders of the Office of the Provincial People’s Committee, the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, the Department of Health gave letters of thanks to the members of the TML volunteer group for actively researching product design, thereby helping medical staff to reduce the pressure on their products. force while on duty, prevent cross-infection in the community, and improve the effectiveness of epidemic prevention and control. At the same time, we hope that the group will continue to have many effective projects to support Bac Giang and other provinces and cities across the country that are affected by the epidemic. On the same day, the Department of Health allocated sampling rooms for testing in the following districts: Luc Nam, Lang Giang and Yen Dung; directing units to strengthen management and efficient exploitation of equipment. News, photo: Mai Toan

Le Thanh Ton Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City is deserted because of the implementation of social distancing. (Photo: Thanh Vu/VNA) Currently, Ho Chi Minh City has many outbreaks of unknown origin in the community and from there spreading to many people, so it is necessary to accelerate the screening and wide-ranging work to end the infection chains. This is the direction of Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phong, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City at the meeting of the city’s Steering Committee for Epidemic Prevention and Control on the afternoon of June 15. Reporting at the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Tan Binh, Director of Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health, said that on June 15, the city recorded 90 cases of COVID-19. Up to now, Ho Chi Minh City has 1,252 cases of COVID-19 in the community with many outbreaks with wide spread such as the outbreak of the Phuc Hung mission group with 476 positive cases for SARS-CoV-2; Outbreak Hoc Mon Mechanical Workshop has 51 positive cases; Ehome 3 apartment outbreak has a total of 59 positive cases; Outbreak Road 11 (Hiep Binh Phuoc ward, Thu Duc city) has 8 positive cases; Outbreaks in Tan Thoi 2 and Tan Thoi Hiep 3 hamlets (Tan Hiep commune, Hoc Mon district) have 32 positive cases; Kim Minh company outbreak (Ward 13, District 5) has 27 positive cases; Outbreak Tan Phu District Hospital has 14 positive cases; Outbreak of Xuyen A Hospital has 22 positive cases… The director of the Department of Health is concerned about the outbreak at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases because the number of cases has reached 67, of which 60 are medical staff and 7 cases are family members of these staff. . Besides, more and more cases appear in companies and industrial zones in recent days. Concerned about the situation of many new infection chains appearing in the community, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong acknowledged that new outbreaks appear according to a common formula of hospital screening. detecting cases, then screening and tracing at living quarters and workplaces again discovered new cases. “There are more and more new cases with unknown sources of infection, so for infection chains with unknown sources of infection, it is necessary to focus on screening, testing and testing on a large scale because if not blocked, the epidemic will spread. to the community,” Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phong expressed concern. Chairman of the People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong directed, in the immediate future, the health sector must carefully screen risk groups in hospitals; Sampling implementation extensive testing to industrial area , export processing zones from now until June 25; at the same time, monitor high-risk places including domestic and international flights, trains and ships entering Ho Chi Minh City. Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phong also suggested that departments, branches, districts of the city must be ready to prepare plans for epidemic prevention and control in a spirit of speed and determination because of the fact that there are still many cases of negligence in the public sector. epidemic prevention and control. According to the Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, this is the time when the entire political system must try and devote all its efforts to the goal of epidemic prevention and control, ensuring the safety and health of the people. Only in this way can we shorten the time of social distancing and bring life back to a new normal.

This company has now been locked down and sampled all 350 employees at the garment factory. Also located in Vinh Loc A Industrial Park, on June 12, through screening, Quoc Anh General Hospital discovered a positive case for nCoV. This person is a worker at Van Duc Food Company. The health sector has traced and sampled more than 100 F1. 500 workers at the facility’s dormitories have been tested. Through the screening of these two companies, the health sector discovered 11 positive aggregate samples. The health sector is conducting large-scale screening samples in industrial zones. Photo: Chi Hung. In addition, on June 13, through screening, Xuyen A Hospital discovered a positive case of a worker in Tan Phu Trung Industrial Park. The health sector detected 4 more positive cases and 6 positive pool samples. Binh said another infection chain was detected through community screening in a residential area of ​​An Lac ward, Binh Tan district. Through testing more than 1,500 workers staying in Binh Tan district, working at PouYuen Company, two positive cases were found. This afternoon, the health sector tested about 1,000 workers and the Department of Health is expanding rapid antigen testing in this area. Binh informed that on the afternoon of June 15, the Department of Health coordinated with Binh Tan and Binh Chanh districts to test more than 25,000 officials and workers in Vinh Loc Industrial Park. According to the announcement of the Ministry of Health, from April 27 to now, Ho Chi Minh City has 894 Covid-19 patients. In particular, the largest outbreak related to the Renaissance missionary group was basically under control. However, the epidemic was complicated when there were many clusters of cases with unknown sources of transmission. In particular, the epidemic has penetrated the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City. The first case was detected on June 12 in the information technology department. Only 4 days after being discovered, this outbreak had 69 people including medical staff and related people. On June 14, Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong made a decision to ease social distancing in Go Vap district and Thanh Loc ward (district 12), reducing from applying Directive 16 to Directive 15. The city remains separated under Directive 15 for 2 weeks. Unloading checkpoints in Go Vap At 0:00 on June 15, all quarantine checkpoints at the gateway of Go Vap district were lifted according to the decision to reduce the distance level of Ho Chi Minh City.

The leader of the National University of Science and Technology handed over the SAR-CoV-2 test kit to the leader of the provincial Department of Health. This is a test kit to detect SARS-CoV-2 virus and report results by Realtime technique. The product has been recognized as meeting national standards and in 2020, and scientists from the University of Science under the National University of Science and Technology have produced and transferred over 1,000 test kits to medical facilities in the province. After the process of improving the production process, the test suite has achieved higher efficiency. It is known that to produce 1,000 of these test kits, scientists from the University of Science did it in 3 days (from May 30 to June 1). In order to continue to support COVID-19 disease control and prevention, TN is improving the production process to increase capacity by 4-5 times, and at the same time can serve controlled testing in the community. with a capacity of 10,000 people/day. Currently, the following units: Thai Nguyen Central Hospital, A Thai Nguyen Hospital and Provincial Center for Disease Control have been using this SAR-CoV-2 virus detection test kit in prevention work. epidemic control in the whole province.

Localities must review and increase their capacity for emergency, active resuscitation and treatment of Covid-19 patients. Illustration The official cable stated that, from April 28, 2021 up to now, the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic has had very serious developments. The whole country recorded over 2,000 cases of Covid-19 in 30 provinces and cities; 9 deaths. About 10% of cases have severe and very severe course. Some localities do not have good preparation for emergency and active resuscitation conditions, so when there are serious cases, they are awkwardly handled and transferred to higher levels, putting pressure and overloading on end-line hospitals. Faced with this serious challenge, the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control is the head of the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control; Chairman of the People’s Committees of provinces and cities urgently consolidate the conditions of facilities, equipment and emergency vehicles, especially ventilators, central oxygen systems, compressed air, consumables, medicines. necessary; strengthen the capacity of emergency and active resuscitation at provincial and municipal general hospitals and hospitals assigned to collect and treat Covid-19 cases. Provinces and cities that have not detected Covid-19 cases immediately send treatment teams to train and improve their diagnostic and treatment capacity at last-line hospitals (or train online). The National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control criticized hospitals assigned to treat Covid-19 in some provinces and cities for their lack of initiative in emergency work, active resuscitation, and case treatment. disease Covid-19. The Steering Committees for Covid-19 Prevention and Control in the provinces and cities direct the directors of the health departments and the directors of the hospitals to review the capacity of hospitals to treat Covid-19 patients in the area; prepare conditions to receive, isolate and treat patients according to the motto “4 on the spot”. The Department of Health and hospitals report daily case progress, treatment capacity, emergency, and active resuscitation on the online software cdc.kcb.vn. Localities are ready to prepare plans to assign at least one hospital in the area as a field hospital (based on the local population size), including arranging emergency and intensive care areas and prepare medical equipment and other conditions. Step 1: Visit https://www.bluezone.gov.vn or download directly at App Store or CH Play. Step 2: Once downloaded, the application will ask for permission to use Bluetooth to record contact with other users who have installed Bluezone. If Bluetooth is not already on, drag the status bar and turn on Bluetooth; or go to Settings, select Bluetooth and turn it on. Step 3: Once the installation is done, click Scan Around. If someone near you less than 2m has used Bluezone, the application will automatically identify these users and put them in the contact list.

Signing handover of the digital map of epidemiology and prevention of COVID-19 between the representative of Hoa Binh province and Phuc Hung Investment Group Joint Stock Company. (Photo: Thanh Hai/VNA) On May 25, the Department of Information and Communications of Hoa Binh province held a ceremony to hand over and put the software into use. Epidemiological number map , supporting the prevention and control of COVID-19″ sponsored by Phuc Hung Investment Group Joint Stock Company. At the ceremony, the Director of the Provincial Department of Information and Communications Peace Bui Duc Nam emphasized that after receiving the software, the Department of Information and Communications will operate, the Provincial Department of Health will coordinate in providing and updating epidemiological information in the province for people and medical applications. related person. According to General Director of Phuc Hung Investment Group Joint Stock Company Le Quoc Quan: Software “Digital epidemiological map, supporting prevention and control work” COVID-19 epidemic ” developed by a group of technology experts, upgraded and supplemented from the Covidmaps digital map to help state management agencies, departments, departments and branches direct the epidemic prevention and control as well as create favorable conditions for people people in searching and updating information related to the COVID-19 epidemic. In addition, the software has an easy-to-use interface, optimizing many features, both helping to support communication about COVID-19 and synchronizing with COVID-19 vaccination activities such as on-site declaration. , at the epidemic prevention point; tracing travel schedules; accurately locate the blocked area, medical isolation; announcement of vaccination against COVID-19 and injection sites; Quickly and promptly summarize data and reports.

Signing handover agreement between representatives of Hoa Binh province and Phuc Hung Investment Group Joint Stock Company. Photo: Thanh Hai/VNA At the ceremony, Director of the Department of Information and Communications of Hoa Binh province Bui Duc Nam emphasized: After receiving the software, the Department of Information and Communications will operate it, and the provincial Department of Health will coordinate to provide and update the software. epidemiological information in the province for people and related units. According to General Director of Phuc Hung Investment Group Joint Stock Company Le Quoc Quan: The software “Digital map of epidemiology, supporting the prevention and control of COVID-19” has been upgraded by a group of technology experts, supplemented from the Covidmaps digital map to help state management agencies, departments, departments and sectors direct the epidemic prevention and control work as well as create favorable conditions for people to look up and update relevant information to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the software has an easy-to-use interface that optimizes many features, both helping to support communication about COVID-19 and synchronizing with COVID-19 vaccination activities such as: place, at the point of epidemic prevention; tracing travel schedules; accurately locate the blocked area, medical isolation; announcement of vaccination against COVID-19 and injection sites; Synthesize and report data quickly and in a timely manner…

It is necessary to quickly complete the connection of surveillance cameras at concentrated isolation facilities. Illustration Following the direction of the Head of the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control on the monitoring of concentrated isolation facilities with a camera system, on May 6, 2021, the Ministry of Information and Communications has issued Official Letter No. 1407/BTTTT-CVT to the People’s Committees of the provinces and centrally-run cities on coordinating and directing the implementation of Official Dispatch No. 597/CD-BCD related to the surveillance camera system at isolation facilities. centrally managed by the People’s Committee of the province. At the same time, the Ministry of Information and Communications issued Official Letter No. 1410/BTTTT-CVT dated May 6, 2021, directing the Departments of Information and Communications of the provinces and cities to coordinate with the Departments of Health and businesses approved appointed to survey and assess the current status of the camera system at concentrated isolation facilities, agree on the connection options with the centralized surveillance camera system. However, during the implementation process, the Department of Information and Communications and the units encountered difficulties in surveying because the isolation facility did not cooperate, affecting the work progress. In order to quickly complete the connection of the surveillance camera system at concentrated isolation facilities, the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control proposed that the Steering Committees for Covid-19 Prevention and Control in provinces and cities The city directs the concentrated isolation facilities managed by the provincial People’s Committees in the area to coordinate and create conditions for the Department of Information and Communications and related units to conduct surveys and assess the current status of the surveillance camera system. monitoring in isolation facilities and connecting to a centralized monitoring system. The Department of Health guides and ensures measures to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic for units that come to survey and work at concentrated isolation facilities. The concentrated isolation facility ensures the conditions for the units to come to survey and implement epidemic prevention and control measures for the survey units according to the regulations on epidemic prevention and control and the guidance of the Department of Health. Step 1: Visit https://www.bluezone.gov.vn or download directly at App Store or CH Play. Step 2: Once downloaded, the application will ask for permission to use Bluetooth to record contact with other Bluezone installed users. If Bluetooth is not open, drag the status bar and turn on Bluetooth; or go to Settings, select Bluetooth and turn it on. Step 3: Once the installation is done, click Scan Around. If someone near you less than 2m has used Bluezone, the application will automatically identify these users and put them in the contact list.

Dak Lak health sector organizes vaccination of Covid-19 According to the Dak Lak health sector, the target is that over 95% of the priority group of people who receive the free and free of charge under Resolution No. 21 / NQ-CP dated February 26, 2021 will get 2 full doses of Covid-19 preventive vaccine . During this round, Dak Lak province was provided with 17,050 doses of vaccine. Therefore, priority will be given to injecting a part of the target group that is the frontline anti-epidemic force in Dak Lak province. In which, there are 7,317 people working in health facilities, 8,255 people participating in epidemic prevention, 1,478 people being the Border Guard, the Provincial Police, the Customs Department, the Provincial Military Command … In phase 1, Dak Lak province organized vaccination for more than 17,000 people Dak Lak province uses the existing expanded vaccination system of the province. In case of need, the Department of Health will mobilize state-owned, private and other immunization service establishments to participate in vaccination. Screening before injection In districts and cities close to each other, they are ready to support each other, mobilize human resources, medical equipment, medical facilities and supplies when unusual situations occur. After the above implementation period, the units actively carried out vector injection in the following days to achieve the target of over 95% of the priority subjects being injected. Medical staff are given priority to be vaccinated During the first injection session, there was no case of drug reaction that must be handled More than 17,000 people received Covid-19 vaccine in the first wave

Department of Science and Technology transfer and apply the results of scientific and technological research projects and projects at the provincial level to units in the province. Specifically, on the transfer of results of topics, provincial projects have 22 subjects and projects. In which, typically the topics and projects: “Evaluate the effectiveness of a number of interventions to improve knowledge and practice attitudes about prevention of hepatitis B virus infection in mountainous and suburban communities. Quang Binh province sea “was transferred to the Department of Health and the Center for Disease Control in Quang Binh province; “Researching the current situation and proposing a number of solutions to improve the effectiveness of anti-corruption in Quang Binh province in the new situation” was transferred to the Internal Affairs Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and Inspectorate of Quang Binh province; “Research on solutions to improve the efficiency of tourism security in Quang Binh province in the current situation” was transferred to the police of Quang Binh province and the Department of Tourism of Quang Binh province; … Part of transferring results of model, career tasks of science and technology includes 14 models and tasks, such as: “Surveying, analyzing the quality of food safety and hygiene on vegetables, tubers and fruits at the a clean vegetable business in Quang Binh province ”the units being transferred are the Technical Center for Test Measurement and the Quality Management Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Quang Binh; “Building a model of wild chicken raising in Quang Trach district”, the unit transferred is Lam Ha General Construction Company Limited and Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Quang Trach district … In the coming time, the Department of Science and Technology will continue to transfer the highly applicable scientific research and technological development results to departments, agencies and localities in the province to serve the development in the provinces. socio-economic field.