HCM City focusing on ensuring safe workplaces amid COVID-19 outbreak
HCM City is making extra efforts to ensure safe production amid the COVID-19 outbreak, as Vietnam’s largest economic hub is now home to 415,000 businesses with 3.2 million workers.
HCM City (VNA) - HCM City is making extra efforts to ensure safeproduction amid the COVID-19 outbreak, as Vietnam’s largest economic hub is nowhome to 415,000 businesses with 3.2 million workers.
The city’s Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control has used a set of indicators to measure therisk of infection and classify enterprises permitted to continue operations.
The city has set upinspection teams to monitor the application of such indicators at localenterprises as well as Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s Directive No. 16 onsocial distancing measures.
Its Centre for DiseaseControl has guided businesses on how to carry out measures to minimise the riskof infections and recommended they request employees keep a certain distancefrom each other and wear face masks while at work.
When inspecting businesses atthe Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone recently, Chairman of the HCM City People’sCommittee Nguyen Thanh Phong asked that close contact be minimised in crowdedareas.
He urged businesses to signcommitments to following COVID-19 prevention and control regulations andstepping up the application of IT in prevention efforts.
According to the city’sManagement Board of Export Processing and Industrial Zones, it currently has 17such zones with about 1,100 enterprises and nearly 280,000 workers. Most companieshave arranged staggered shifts to ensure social distancing.
Secretary of the HCM City PartyCommittee Nguyen Thien Nhan recently asked businesses to strictly follow socialdistancing measures as regulated in Directive No. 16. “TheState does not prevent enterprises from manufacturing, but economic developmentmust meet certain requirements and not pose risks to people’s safety,” he emphasised.“Only when enterprises meet all the criteria on disease prevention will they bepermitted to operate.”
According to the city’s Departmentof Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs, 75 percent of the businesses have cut theirproduction since the lunar new year (Tet) holiday in late January, with 600,000people losing their jobs./.
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The strategic product, managed and operated by the Vietnam News Agency Digital Media Centre (VNA Media), is an official channel for popularising the Party and State’s information and documents as well as delivering mainstream and trustworthy news to both domestic and international audiences through various kinds of multimedia formats.
Since President Ho Chi Minh founded Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper in 1925, the Vietnamese revolutionary press has become the voice of the people. During the resistance war against the colonialists, journalists took great personal risks to inspire patriotism and the will of rising up against foreign invaders.
A street in HCM City (Photo: VNA) 
