Deputy PM requests limiting lockdown to smallest possible scale
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam requested relevant agencies and localities to try to limit lockdown to the smallest possible scale during an online meeting of the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control with Hai Duong, Quang Ninh and Hanoi authorities on February 3.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at the meeting (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam requestedrelevant agencies and localities to try to limit lockdown to the smallestpossible scale during an online meeting of the National Steering Committee onCOVID-19 Prevention and Control with Hai Duong, Quang Ninh and Hanoi authoritieson February 3.
Dam stressed that the army should be ready to offerassistance to other localities when new cases are discovered.
Localities reported that COVID-19 outbreak in Chi Linh city(Hai Duong province) has been put under control while Hanoi has basicallycurbed the source of transmission from Hai Duong.
Members of the committee suggested Hanoi expand tracing downpeople returning from Quang Ninh and urged Quang Ninh to stay vigilant againstthe complicated developments of the pandemic.
At the meeting (Photo: VNA)
As the pandemic situation is complicated in the CentralHighlands province of Gia Lai, experts suggested the Health Ministry increasesupport for the locality in the regard.
Participants agreed with the need to conduct healthdeclaration for all citizens nationwide. The Health Ministry was assigned to updateand announce relevant information while localities must seriously punish thosewho do not wear masks when going out.
Vice Chairman of the Hanoi municipal People’s Committee ChuXuan Dung said Hanoi has ordered restaurants, karaoke parlors, bars,discotheques and game shops to suspend operations, while limiting festivals andevents gathering large numbers of people before, during and after the Lunar NewYear.
All district and communal administrations have been instructedto strictly punish people who do not wear masks in public places and conducttesting for F1 and F2 cases at the earliest time./.
The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has recorded five people testing positive once for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19, all of them linked with the localities that have reported confirmed cases over the past few days.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on January 31 led a working delegation to the northern province of Hai Duong to inspect the COVID-19 prevention and control in the locality.
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Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at the meeting (Photo: VNA) 
At the meeting (Photo: VNA) 
