Prime Minister orders effective COVID-19 prevention strategies
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested ministries and localities to build effective strategies to cope with COVID-19 in terms of economy and health, while chairing a virtual meeting with permanent members of the Government in Hanoi on August 12.
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested ministries andlocalities to build effective strategies to cope with COVID-19 in terms ofeconomy and health, while chairing a virtual meeting with permanent members ofthe Government in Hanoi on August 12.
ThePM hailed the health sector in such hot spots as central Da Nang city and neighbouring QuangNam province for promptly zoning off outbreak areas and carrying out quick testing on a largescale as well as implementing seriously social distancing measures.
He pointed out that this week to the next one is a crucial time, so it is necessaryto implement all necessary preventive measures.
ꦉ Heasked localities to ensure the sufficient supply of medical equipment for health workers – who are onthe frontlines of the battle, as well as further enhance public awareness ofthe COVID-19 prevention work.
The PM urged the health sector to speed up the research of medicines and vaccines against COVID-19 and complete treatment regimen to minimise the fatalities.
Closemonitoring of border areas must be maintained, he emphasised.
🔴 He ordered each locality to build an effective prevention strategy, botheconomically and medically, by evaluating the risks of separate areas, notnecessarily applying lockdown measures for all parts of a city or district in along time.
According to the Ministry of Health, the outbreak in the central city of Da Nang has been gradually controlled. The spread of the disease among the community has been limited and the number of new infections has dropped in recent days. Most of fatalities related to COVID-19 had underlying conditions./.
The Ministry of Transport has ordered continued suspension of passenger transport from/to Da Nang from 0:00 hour on August 12 in order to prevent the COVID-19 from spreading further after the central city reported new outbreaks late last month.
Three more COVID-19 patients, two in Quang Ngai and one in Da Nang, were declared on August 12 to have fully recovered from the disease, bringing the number of recoveries to 402.
As of July, businesses nationwide owed social insurance premiums totalling over 20.6 trillion VND (887.6 million USD) due to the coronavirus crisis, according to Vietnam Social Insurance (VSI).
As many as 173 tourist accommodation establishments in 25 cities and provinces across Vietnam had been mobilised as of August 6 to serve as quarantine sites in the fight against COVID-19, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).
Some 15.7 million smartphone users had downloaded Bluezone, a locally-developed contact-tracing app to identify and alert people who have interacted with COVID-19 patients, as of 11am on August 11, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC).
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (Photo: VNA) 
