Do not prolong social distancing on a large scale Vice Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Duong Anh Duc said that currently, 7 enterprises (enterprises) in industrial parks (IZs) in the city have Covid-19 cases. Most of the places only have 1-2 cases, with no signs of spreading to other places. In which, 2 enterprises have similar characteristics (seafood processing, workers work together in a cold and closed environment) so the number of cases is larger with 6 and 11 cases… People’s Committees of wards and districts Districts with cases have suspended non-urgent services, stopped accepting in-person applications, only accepting online applications. Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son, Head of the Special Department of the Ministry of Health in Ho Chi Minh City, said the city will set up about 100 delegations to inspect all factories and enterprises operating in the industrial park. Large factories and enterprises need to have a plan to arrange for the core workers to live in the industrial park or have a closed process from accommodation, dormitories, transportation to the factory to work, live and take them to work. about. Ho Chi Minh City has prepared a treatment plan for 5,000 patients, but must be ready with equipment to treat patients on ventilators who have severe symptoms. Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son inspects the preservation of 836,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine at the Pasteur Institute’s cold storage in Ho Chi Minh City on the afternoon of June 17 Photo: HAI YEN After receiving 836,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine, Mr. Duong Anh Duc said that Ho Chi Minh City had a meeting to plan to identify priority subjects and injection plans; strive to inject for 200,000 people/day, expected from June 19; at the same time, increasing testing capacity to 30,000 samples/day. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam emphasized that Ho Chi Minh City is a big city; The government and people have gone through the practical process of fighting the epidemic. Therefore, decisions on social distancing, isolation and blockade must be in the spirit of trying to be as concise as possible. The purpose of social distancing is to slow down the spread of the epidemic, identify outbreaks, sources of infection, and scale in order to narrowly, tightly, and strive not to prolong the extension. society on a large scale. The Deputy Prime Minister asked Ho Chi Minh City to “keep the balance” of the IP with strong measures. Ho Chi Minh City needs to strengthen testing and warning to quickly detect infections in the first 3 days, with lessons learned in fighting epidemics like in Bac Giang and Bac Ninh. The Deputy Prime Minister noted that although Ho Chi Minh City’s testing capacity is very good compared to other localities, with a population of 10 million and many industrial zones, the city must have a plan to increase testing capacity in the event of an outbreak. in the industrial park. In particular, the coordination of testing must ensure consistency among participating units, meeting the sampling and tracing speed to catch up with the epidemic’s spread. Absolutely do not let the test situation be delayed or mistaken due to the coordination as happened in some places. If infection is detected in factories and enterprises in industrial zones, Ho Chi Minh City should pay close attention to the densely packed worker accommodation areas when zoning, isolation and blockade are implemented. The Deputy Prime Minister requested that in the coming time, Ho Chi Minh City urgently needs to complete the pilot guidance on isolating F1 cases at home, ensuring strict safety in terms of health as well as people’s privacy, in accordance with the law. conditions of the city in the case of a large number of infected people. Mobilization of many vaccination forces At the inspection of the preservation of 836,000 doses of the Covid-19 vaccine that has just been transported to the cold storage of the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City on the afternoon of the same day, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son said that in the next 2 days, Ho Chi Minh City will open 1,000 Covid-19 vaccination points for people. “Distributed by the Government and the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Immunization, in this batch, Vietnam imported 966,300 doses of vaccine for the whole country, of which 836,000 doses were transported to Ho Chi Minh City” – Deputy Minister Nguyen Truong Son said. The Ministry of Health has completed the script and in the next 2 days will finalize the script to discuss with the leaders of Ho Chi Minh City and the City Steering Committee to be ready to deploy at vaccination points. This vaccination campaign will take place in about 5-7 days. “To carry out this vaccination campaign, we not only mobilize the medical force in Ho Chi Minh City, but we also mobilize the forces at the central level, ministries and branches in the city. A number of military hospitals and hospitals Police force institutes, military preventive medicine institutes will also participate in this campaign,” said Deputy Minister Nguyen Truong Son. With the principle and spirit of quick vaccination in the campaign but still must ensure absolute safety for those who participate in vaccination, Deputy Minister Nguyen Truong Son said that the vaccine injected in this batch is AstraZeneca’s, the deadline The use is still relatively long, ensuring the safety of the vaccination campaign of Ho Chi Minh City. “Hopefully in the next round, the provinces that are facing great difficulties during this epidemic such as Bac Ninh, Bac Giang, Binh Duong, Tien Giang … will receive the vaccine to give priority to the whole production force which is workers. to ensure safety in production” – Deputy Minister of Health expressed. Overseas Vietnamese support the Vaccine Fund On the afternoon of June 17, Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son awarded more than 6.2 billion VND as contributions from the overseas Vietnamese community, the Lao National Assembly Office and officials, civil servants and officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Diplomacy for the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, supporting the Covid-19 Vaccine Fund and the fight against Covid-19 in localities. In addition to the above amount, in the past few days, the Vietnamese community with nearly 30 organizations and groups in the US, Canada, France… has launched the campaign “Join hands for Vietnam” and “10,000 doses of vaccines”. please for Vietnam”, soon move back to the country to support people, especially doctors – nurses and those who are working on the front lines, to overcome the Covid-19 pandemic. D.Chau Another 515 cases of Covid-19, Ho Chi Minh City alone has 137 cases The Ministry of Health said that on June 17, Vietnam recorded an additional 515 cases of Covid-19, including 12 isolated cases immediately after entry and 503 domestic cases in Bac Giang (327), Ho Chi Minh City (137), and Tien Giang. Giang (13), Bac Ninh (12), Binh Duong (7), Ha Tinh (4), Lang Son (2), Nghe An (1). This is the day Vietnam has recorded the highest number of cases since the outbreak. Notably, the number of new cases in Ho Chi Minh City and Bac Giang continuously increased rapidly. Since the outbreak appeared, our country has recorded 12,150 cases of Covid-19, of which 10,483 are domestic cases and 1,667 imported cases. On June 17, 63 more Covid-19 patients were announced to be cured, bringing the number of cured cases to 4,653. The number of deaths is now 61.

Offer to compensate for epidemic prevention According to the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City, there were 246 cases of Covid-19 recorded in the area, of which 222 cases had been cured, and 24 people undergoing medical treatment were stable; 2,572 people are on concentrated isolation and 1 person is on home isolation. From March 8 to April 18, the city health sector injected Covid-19 vaccine phase 1 for 9,155 health workers of 73 public health facilities. From April 19, the city continued to inject phase 2 for 1,022 employees of 10 medical facilities. Director of the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Tan Binh proposed to increase sanctions, severely punish illegal entries. In addition, in these cases, it is necessary to compensate for the epidemic prevention cost for quarantined contacts, whether positive or negative. Medical care for Covid-19 epidemic prevention in Ho Chi Minh City (Photo: NGUYEN THANH) Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong said that in the past time, in the city, 108 cases of illegal entry have been discovered. The city has issued a letter to coordinate with localities bordering other countries on this issue, and at the same time petitioned Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam to direct border provinces to increase control over immigration. illegal. Ho Chi Minh City leaders expressed their wish to increase coverage of Covid-19 vaccine for the entire population. The city will buy the active vaccine by itself. There is a company in the city that is researching, testing and producing vaccines. In a special case, the city will consider this production because it is a problem for the city. Deputy Prime Minister Vu Dac Dam said that Ho Chi Minh City is a large center with a wide trade density. There are many good ways to create lessons for the whole country in the past outbreaks. Ho Chi Minh City strengthens the control of people who illegally enter the border area, continues to bring people back in the spirit of not only safe isolation but also post-isolation monitoring; strictly handle the case of illegal entry, intentionally not making a declaration. The Deputy Prime Minister noted that the number of cases in some Asian countries has increased recently by 34% and that in neighboring countries is also increasing. The number of people crossing the border illegally through the trail, the opening is difficult to control. Just missing one case of Covid-19 in crowded events will have unpredictable consequences. He welcomed the units to actively produce and test vaccines. It is necessary to immediately update technology and biologicals for testing, at the same time the Ministry of Health completes vaccination procedures. The Deputy Prime Minister proposed to strictly follow the 5K rule, strictly control people who enter illegally and have a specific plan for Covid-19 vaccination in the coming time. Ca Mau: Recommended specialized equipment In the afternoon of the same day, Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan had a working session with the People’s Committee of Ca Mau Province on immigration management, isolation, medical supervision, Covid-19 vaccination implementation, work medical service for the election of deputies to the XV National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels, for the 2021-2026 term in the province. Mr. Nguyen Van Dung, Director of the Department of Health of Ca Mau province, said the province is facing a number of difficulties such as the number of people entering illegally because the locality has a sea route bordering many countries in the region; With large and sparsely populated areas, it is difficult to detect cases early from epidemic zones to localities. At the same time, the preparation for the first vaccination launch, distribution of vaccines to the locality is still slow or the expiry date of vaccines is short, so the implementation of vaccination faces difficulties. Since then, the representative of the Department of Health of Ca Mau province has proposed to the Ministry of Health to consider prioritizing the distribution of vaccines, supporting training, professional training for Covid-19 epidemic prevention or supporting the sites. specialized equipment, especially for testing and treating positive patients in the event of an outbreak. Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan suggested that Ca Mau not neglect and be subjective in the prevention of Covid-19 epidemic because the locality has a long coastline, on the border of Kien Giang – a province bordering with Cambodia … Relevant industries need to coordinate closely to promptly detect and handle illegal entry cases. 14 more cases of Covid-19 were found to be on entry The Ministry of Health said that on April 23, our country discovered 14 more cases of Covid-19, which were isolated cases after entry in Nam Dinh, Da Nang, Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Khanh Hoa, An Giang and TP. HCM City. Currently, our country has recorded 2,830 cases of Covid-19, of which 1,570 cases of Covid-19 were caused by domestic infections. For nearly a month, Vietnam has not reported cases of Covid-19 in the community. The Ministry of Health said 128,610 people had been vaccinated against Covid-19 over the past month. N. Dung