Awareness is key to keeping safe in Hanoi in the new normal: experts
Experts believe that when Hanoi gradually moves to the “new normal” after COVID-19 outbreaks, citizens’ awareness is the most important factor to prevent the panemic from spreading again.
A poster of the Ministry of Health reminds residents to continue preventive measures after Hanoi opens in the new normal situation. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Experts believe that when Hanoi gradually moves to the “new normal” after COVID-19 outbreaks, citizens’ awareness is the most important factor to prevent the panemic from spreading again.
The Hanoi Centre for Diseases Control (CDC) on October 16 night reported 12 new cases of COVID-19, and 10 of them had come from COVID-19-affected areas.
On October 14, a number of activities and services in Hanoi re-opened after the pandemic was brought under control, including buses, taxis, museums, parks, hotels and restaurants. The services had been temporarily halted for more than three months.
Khong Minh Tuan, deputy director of CDC Hanoi, said that other provinces and cities across the country had gradually re-opened for the new normal situation.
The fact that Hanoi may have new cases is something that could be predicted in advance.
“It is important that the new cases are supervised and tested immediately. It depends on people’s awareness. If they use airlines, all passenger lists will be supervised. But at present, many others travel by other means and ignore medical declarations when returning to their hometown, it poses a high risk for the community,” he said.
🔯 Tuan advised people to follow guidance about quarantine at home and make medical declarations to avoid spreading the pandemic to their families and the community.
Agreeing with him, associate professor Nguyen Huy Nga, former director of the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health, said that the occurrence of new cases, or unvaccinated cases returning from affected areas, will pose a risk of spreading the virus if preventive measures are not well implemented.
Those could affect children or vaccinated people who have weak resistance and elderly people, leading to new outbreaks, he said.
Nga added that it would not be as critical as in HCM City and southern provinces because nearly all people in Hanoi had received the first dose of vaccine, and 50-60 percent of them had received the second dose.
The new normal situation would lead to new outbreaks, but would not affect the capital city’s work in pandemic prevention and control, he said.
𒊎 “People returning from pandemic-affected areas must strictly follow preventive measures. Violators must receive a penalty. Municipal authorities should closely supervise people coming from different areas,” said Nga./.
Hanoi is now at Level 1 in COVID-19 prevention and control, which means Hanoi is a “green zone” with the low pandemic risk and in the “new normal” status, according to the municipal Centre for Disease Control (CDC).
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A poster of the Ministry of Health reminds residents to continue preventive measures after Hanoi opens in the new normal situation. (Photo: VNA) 
