The information was said by City Party Secretary Nguyen Van Nen at the meeting of the Ho Chi Minh City Covid-19 Steering Committee on the morning of June 7.
City Party Secretary Nguyen Van Nen at the meeting of the Ho Chi Minh City Anti-Epidemic Steering Committee.
According to Mr. Nen, up to now, 140,000 people from the city’s frontline forces have been vaccinated against Covid-19, reaching the set plan.
The head of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee also announced that the Vietnamese vaccine produced in the city is undergoing phase 3 testing. `According to assessments, the quality of this vaccine is not inferior to other countries. If it goes well, within the quarter
Previously, according to the Department of Health, Ho Chi Minh City will receive 71,800 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine in the third phase, vaccinating 6 priority groups, completed before August 15.
Nearly 17,200 remaining doses are expected to give the first dose to 6 groups of people, including: groups working at medical facilities;
Covid-19 vaccination for staff at the Ho Chi Minh City Tropical Diseases Hospital, March 8, in the first phase of the vaccination campaign.
Assessing the city’s epidemic prevention measures, City Party Secretary Nguyen Van Nen said that the decision to quarantine the entire city is a timely measure, contributing to preventing the spread of the disease.
`If we don’t implement social distancing, it’s possible that the city will lose control. At this time, we don’t know what’s going on,` Mr. Nen said, saying that implementing physical distancing is sometimes awkward in some places because the locality hasn’t yet implemented it.
Regarding the issue of medical quarantine of people coming from epidemic areas, the Secretary of the City Party Committee noted that the health sector `must be cautious` because recently some provinces have made inappropriate decisions, affecting people and businesses.
According to Mr. Nen, the number of quarantined people is currently high. Although localities have prepared, the number of quarantine places is running out, some places have used 70-80% of capacity.
By noon on June 7, Ho Chi Minh City recorded 386 Covid-19 cases, currently 7,770 people are quarantined in centralized locations, and 13,714 cases are quarantined at home or in places of residence.
