Hai Duong imposes social distancing from noon on January 28
Social distancing was introduced in Chi Linh city in the northern province of Hai Duong from midday on January 28, following the detection of 73 cases of community transmission of the coronavirus in the locality, according a local official.
An inspection post at Chi Linh city of Hai Duong province (Photo: VNA)
Hai Duong (VNA) - Social distancing was introduced in Chi Linh city in thenorthern province of Hai Duong from midday on January 28, following thedetection of 73 cases of community transmission of the coronavirus in thelocality, according a local official.
Nguyen Van Kien,Chairman of the city’s People’s Committee, said Kim Dien village in Hung Daocommune and Vietnam Poyun Electronics, where a female patient worked, have beenput under lock down.
Hai Duong istaking drastic measures to contain the outbreak, especially contract tracingand testing, and has reactivated the local COVID-19 taskforce.
However, thelocality faces a shortage of test kits and protective suits for medicalworkers, a meeting of the provincial steering committee for COVID-19 preventionand control heard.
Chairman of theprovincial People’s Committee Nguyen Duong Thai asked cities, towns, anddistricts to promptly roll out preventive measures at the highest level, sayingthe provincial health department stands ready to coordinate with Chi Linh inpreparing the building of a field hospital.
The Ministry ofHealth has sent a working team to Hai Duong to assist in the fight. With this support,relevant local agencies are swiftly collecting samples from all workers at VietnamPoyun Electronics and the villagers of Kim Dien.
As part ofpreventive measures, the province has told students not to attend school fromJanuary 29 until further notice.
Thai asked theprovincial departments of education and training and labour, invalids andsocial affairs, as well as people’s committees of cities, towns, and districts,to instruct local educational institutions to intensify pandemic prevention andcontrol measures and devise plans for online studies.
After two cases ofcommunity transmission were confirmed late on January 27, an additional 82 moreCOVID-19 cases were detected in the northern provinces of Hai Duong and QuangNinh on the morning of January 28, with 72 in Hai Duong./.
Vietnam is among top countries and territories that proved the most successful at containing the pandemic, announced a report unveiled on January 27 of the Lowy Institute, an independent think-tank in Australia.
The Steering Committee for COVID-19 prevention in the northern province of Quang Ninh held an emergency meeting on January 27 night to immediately activate disease prevention measures at the highest level in the locality after one locally-transmitted case of coronavirus was confirmed the same day.
Vietnam recorded 82 new COVID-19 cases in the northern provinces of Hai Duong and Quang Ninh on January 28 morning after two locally-infected cases were confirmed late January 27.
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An inspection post at Chi Linh city of Hai Duong province (Photo: VNA) 
