Officials of the Provincial Center for Disease Control apply IT in investigating and tracing cases with epidemiological factors related to the Covid-19 epidemic. In the face of complicated developments of the Covid-19 epidemic, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh directed to make a full-scale, stronger and more effective offensive with more active, comprehensive and more appropriate solutions. , more effectively in the spirit of “fighting the epidemic like fighting the enemy”. In particular, attention must be paid to epidemic prevention and control from early, remotely, from before the epidemic with the motto 5K + vaccines and technology solutions. Following the direction of the Government and the Prime Minister, during the past time, especially the 3rd and 4th Covid-19 epidemics in 2021, Quang Ninh has always focused on applying IT in work. epidemic prevention and control, has brought effective, such as: NCOVI voluntary health declaration for people; online medical declaration at tokhaiyte.vn (VietNam Health Declaration application); Bluezone detects close contact with sick people, suspected infected people through Bluetooth of smartphones; anti-epidemic map system at antoancovid.vn for service establishments, accommodation, crowded public places such as schools, medical examination and treatment facilities…; The system records people coming and going to public places through scanning QR codes at smartphone applications such as NCOVI, VietNam Health Declaration, Bluezone… Electronic medical declaration and QR code scanning are applied at Bach Dang Bridge epidemic prevention and control checkpoint. Concretize Notice No. 137/TB-VPCP dated May 30, 2021 of the Government Office “Notifying the conclusion of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh at the nationwide online meeting on the prevention and control of Covid-19 epidemic. -19″, the provincial directives related to the mandatory application of technology in the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic, Quang Ninh Department of Information and Communications has actively implemented many solutions. In which, strengthening propaganda, guidance and supervision of localities and units throughout the province on installing Bluezone application; urgently research and build the province’s own website on the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic, providing useful and necessary information to serve the direction and operation of the steering committees at all levels and serve people look up information; integrating the province’s Covid-19 map, connecting with central database systems and synchronizing electronic medical declaration data to serve the direction, administration and tracing; Build your own mobile app… Provincial General Hospital staff update hospital information on the National Covid-19 Safe Coexistence Map. Through the IT and telecommunications foundation infrastructure of the province’s e-Government system such as: Provincial public service portal, official email system, public Wi-Fi system… Department of Information and Communications is the focal point. broadcast messages and developments in epidemic prevention and control as well as the direction and administration of the province; provide information on epidemic prevention and control to press agencies, media as well as basic information systems, including information related to tracing work. At times with special factors, the Department produces newsletters or informational content to provide timely, fastest and absolutely accurate information to the press and the grassroots information system. Information in the province’s epidemic prevention and control is updated on the provincial portal and the provincial e-Government page on the Zalo platform. Most of the departments, branches, localities and units in the province currently have fan pages on facebook; All information on the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic is gathered and posted on the e-Government page of Quang Ninh province on the Zalo platform… This is an important part of helping the province to spread messages to the people in the public sector. disease prevention and control, so that every citizen knows and proactively prevents and effectively prevents epidemics at all times and places. Minh Ha

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.

Accordingly, in the face of increasingly complicated developments of the Covid-19 epidemic in the city, the Department of Informatization recommends agencies and units under the Ministry of Information and Communications to use technological solutions for medical declaration. Manage people entering and exiting the office. Specifically, in addition to officials, civil servants, public employees, and employees in the agency, all guests coming to contact work are required to install and turn on the application to install the Bluezone proximity detection application before go to work. This rule only excludes those who do not use smartphones. Bluezone application is the most effective tool to trace people suspected of being infected with Covid-19. Photo: Trong Dat At the entrance of offices and units under the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Department of Informatization recommends that you paste a QR Code to install the Bluezone application at a recognizable location to support users. Guests who come to work at agencies and headquarters of the Ministry of Information and Communications also need to make an electronic medical declaration. The declaration will be made on 1 of 3 applications Bluezone, NCOVI, Vietnam Health Declaration or on website tokhaiyte.vn. The paper medical declaration will only be applied to those who do not have a smartphone. In addition, agencies and units in the Ministry of Information and Communications have also been advised to manage people entering and leaving the office by scanning QR codes. To do this, units need to register for a “quarantine point” and get their QR code at website tokhaiyte.vn. This QR code will be printed and pasted at a recognizable location at the entrance of each agency or unit. Scanning QR codes is a measure to save users’ epidemiological milestones. Guests coming to contact business will be forced to scan a QR code for quarantine using one of the 3 applications Bluezone, NCOVI, Vietnam Health Declaration. In the event that after scanning the quarantine QR code, the application says that the user has not made a medical declaration or the declaration has expired, they will be forced to make a medical declaration and re-scan the code. At the entrance to the offices, the Department of Informatization also recommends arranging a department to check and monitor the scanning of quarantine QR codes of employees and visitors to contact for work. Using the Bluezone tracing app, electronic medical declarations and scanning QR codes for quarantine are just 3 of the 5 anti-epidemic solutions with technology proposed by the Ministry of Information and Communications to localities. Previously, sharing at the current news at 19:00 on May 26 of Vietnam Television, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Huy Dung said that renewing the approach to technology in Covid-19 prevention and control is a combination balance between “defence” and “attack”. In terms of technology, “attack” is the mandatory use of some key applications to prevent Covid-19, instead of just recommending as before. If before, data was distributed by application, now data must be managed centrally. Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Huy Dung. The Ministry of Information and Communications has proposed mandatory use of Bluezone application. Workers in industrial parks, factories and enterprises are required to make medical declarations. People using smartphones are required to use an application to identify close contact when going to a public place, where there are many people. Public places and offices must control people coming, going, leaving and entering by scanning QR codes. The fourth measure is to use technology to support the monitoring of people in medical isolation. According to Deputy Minister Nguyen Huy Dung, turning on Bluetooth and using the Bluezone application when going to public places will help users protect themselves, protect the community, assist in zoning out the epidemic, and quickly trace. When that happens, it will also help isolate high-risk people, rather than everyone. For agencies and organizations, effective disease prevention will help agencies, organizations, factories and enterprises maintain normal production and business activities. Trong Dat