Deputy PM: pandemic fight should concentrate on high-risk areas
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, on August 4 asked the health sector and all-level authorities to concentrate on high-risk areas during the fight against COVID-19.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of the NationalSteering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, on August 4 asked thehealth sector and all-level authorities to concentrate on high-risk areas duringthe fight against COVID-19.
Accordingto the Deputy PM, hospitals and nursing homes need the most attention, andpatients in critical conditions and prolonged treatment in intensive care unit (ICU),and renal and cardiovascular departments are most vulnerable to coronavirustransmission.
Theoutbreak in the central city of Da Nang has put hospitals, localities,departments and agencies on alert, he further said, stressing the need to tightenrules in hospitals and seriously observe pandemic prevention and controlregulations towards patients and health workers.
Damsaid measures against COVID-19 should be implemented in the status of newnormal, and asked the Ministry of Health to coordinate with media agencies toguide people to maintain their daily activities and production in the newsituation.
Speakingat the meeting, Acting Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long pointed to thecomplexity of the pandemic in Da Nang and nearby Quang Nam province, sayingtesting proves that the new wave began in early July.
Theministry is making all-out efforts to contain the disease by extending testingand surveillance in the community and quarantining all F1 cases that havedirect contact with COVID-19 patients.
Longsaid up to 50,000 samples in Da Nang and Quang Nam will be taken for testing inthe time ahead.
TheNational Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control predicted that therewill be more cases of community transmission and fatalities in the time ahead asthe pandemic is sweeping through ICU, artificial kidney and heart departmentswhere patients with serious chronic diseases are being treated.
Thecommittee reported that as of August 4 evening, Vietnam had confirmed 670COVID-19 cases, including 308 imported cases that were quarantined uponarrival.
Amongthe patients, 378 have recovered. There are 222 new cases are linked to Da Nangsince July 25.
Nearly133,280 people who had close contact with patients or came from pandemic-hitareas are under quarantine and medical monitoring./.
All 20 COVID-19 patients returning from Equatorial Guinea are now in good health, said deputy director of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases Nguyen Trung Cap on August 3.
The Centre for Disease Control in the northern province of Hoa Binh on August 4 said that four COVID-19 patients have fully recovered and discharged from the provincial general hospital.
An additional 18 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the past 12 hours, bringing the total tally to 670 as of 6pm on August 4, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
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Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA) 
