Deputy PM - Truong Hoa Binh: Long An needs to strictly implement social distancing measures

According to Standing Deputy PM - Truong Hoa Binh, Long An needs to strictly implement social distancing measures in the current epidemic situation

Director of the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City - Prof. Dr. Phan Trong Lan; Deputy Director of the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, Head of the Working Group of the Ministry of Health to support Long An in preventing and controlling the Covid-19 epidemic - Dr. Dr. Hoang Quoc Cuong also attended the meeting. Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee - Nguyen Van Duoc and members of the Long An Steering Committee for preventing and controlling dangerous diseases on human received the delegation.

During the 4th epidemic, the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic in the province was extremely complicated and unpredictable. As of this afternoon, Long An recorded a total of 290 patients with codes, of which 16 were imported, others were community cases.

Through statistics of infection sources, it shows that there are 13 clusters of infections in the community, all related to epidemiological factors from Ho Chi Minh City, including some cases of entering companies in industrial parks. However, it was controlled and there was no cross infection in the company thanks to the intense focus on tracing the infectious cases.

In addition, there is an outbreak in Tan Hung district related to the outbreak in Dong Thap; The remaining clusters of infections are looking for epidemiological factors. Particularly, the cluster of cases at Long An General Hospital arose from June 29, so far there have been 74 cases in the hospital (with code of 62 cases; others are being checked and verified to issue codes). Thus, 15 out of 15 districts, town and city have cases of infection in the community up to now.

Since the first case of community infection, the province has changed drastically with many measures to promptly localize and stamp out the epidemic. The province strengthens inspection and requires enterprises to strictly implement Decision 2194/QD-BCDQG of the National Steering Committee; organize screening tests for industrial parks and clusters, workers' hostels and crowd-gathering places; apply social distance according to Directive 16/CT-TTg for 5 localities and Directive 15/CT-TTg for the remaining localities.

At the meeting, Secretary of the Long An Party Committee - Nguyen Van Duoc suggested the Ministry of Health to consider increasing highly specialized human resources to support the province in epidemic prevention and control; paid attention to, supported the province with the number of quick tests, test kits for tracing or support, introduce the company that provides biological products for the province to contact for additional purchases immediately. In addition, Long An also proposed to pilot treatment of asymptomatic F0 cases in concentrated isolation areas and conduct home isolation for F1 cases, etc.

Standing Deputy PM - Truong Hoa Binh inspects the overcoming solutions of Dinsen Vietnam Company

Standing Deputy PM - Truong Hoa Binh praised the efforts of the province during the epidemic situation, it still tries to fulfill the tasks of economic development and investment attraction. Accordingly, the GRDP growth rate reaches 6.06 percent in the first 6 months of 2021.

In the prevention of epidemics, Long An needs to specifically assess the capacity of health facilities from the provincial to district levels, equipped with sufficient facilities, equipment and personnel to treat F0 cases with levels range from little to severe. In addition, the province promotes the role of the community Covid-19 team; strengthen patrols, control and handle violations in implementing the epidemic prevention and control, especially strict implementation of social distancing measures in localities according to Directive 15/CT-TTg and Directive 16/ CT-TTg.

Localities need to focus on fighting the epidemic according to the motto "4 on site"; testing with main points and strong points on high-risk areas or people; In particular, they should be paid attention to treating medical waste. The Deputy PM also affirmed that the most effective prevention is still propaganda to raise people's awareness in many forms in the current epidemic situation - this is the fundamental measure to repel the disease.

Currently, Dinsen Vietnam Company has been operating again since July 5

On the same day, Standing Deputy PM - Truong Hoa Binh also came to check the overcoming solutions of Dinsen Vietnam Co., Ltd (Ben Luc district) after the recent epidemic incident. Accordingly, the company has built housing for all workers in Ho Chi Minh City to stay in; always keep 2-meter distance at work; patrol groups remind and sanction those who do not comply.

At the same time, the company regularly disinfects the premises of the company, the cafeteria is threaded, follows a one-way process, workers eat and drink in a fixed position. With the above efforts, the company was able to return to operation from July 5. The Deputy PM asked the company to make efforts to maintain epidemic prevention measures, minimize the risk of epidemics in the company, affect the health of workers and break the production chain./.

By Pham Ngan – Translated by Duc Tam

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