Localities authorised to decide on social distancing: Minister
Localities are authorised to decide on social distancing in accordance with the Prime Minister’s directions and their real situations, ensuring pandemic prevention and control and socio-economic development, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has said.
Hanoi (VNA) – Localities areauthorised to decide on social distancing in accordance with the Prime Minister’sdirections and their real situations, ensuring pandemic prevention and controland socio-economic development, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has said.
In an interview with the Vietnam NewsAgency (VNA), Long said the pandemic has been basically controlled in almostall localities. However, the northern provinces of Bac Ninh and Bac Giangshould work harder to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Noting that the COVID-19 situation in BacGiang is developing complicatedly as infections are mostly workers inindustrial parks, he lauded the province’s efforts in COVID-19 testing withmore than 200,000 samples tested.
Meanwhile, its neighbouring province of BacNinh is facing a high risk, the minister said, expressing his hope that withcurrent effective measures, Bac Ninh will well control the situation soon.
Explaining the reason why a massive socialdistancing has not been applied despite a rise in the number of COVID-19infections, Long said that the policy will be applied with reasonable scalesand methods to ensure the prevention of the pandemic from spreading and avoidaffecting socio-economic activities of the localities and people’s lives.
It is the responsibility of localadministrations to evaluate the pandemic situation in their localities to make aproper decision, he stressed.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long (Photo: VNA)
Underscoring the significance of COVID-19testing, Long said that this time, testing on a large scale is being carriedout using more kinds of bio products for faster results.
The Ministry of Health encourages domesticproducers of biological products to continue increasing their production, whileboosting imports to ensure enough supply for testing, he said.
The minister affirmed that the approach toand methods of conducting COVID-19 testing have been changed to improve the capacityin the field for better pandemic prevention and control./.
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Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long (Photo: VNA) 
