HCM City drafts plan for COVID-19 response beyond Sept 15
Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s largest COVID-19 epicentre, targets to fully vaccinate all residents aged above 18 against COVID-19 and use “COVID-19 green cards” to enable eligible people to resume economic activities and social interactions in certain sectors depending on their level of virus control effectiveness.
HCM City is calling recovered COVID-19 patients to assist its COVID-19 response. Illustrative photo. (Source: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City, thecountry’s largest COVID-19 epicentre, targets to fully vaccinate all residents agedabove 18 against COVID-19 and use “COVID-19 green cards” to enable eligiblepeople to resume economic activities and social interactions in certain sectorsdepending on their level of virus control effectiveness.
The moves form part of a draft plan to fight COVID-19beyond September 15 submitted to the municipal People’s Committee by the local Department of Health.
Based on the city’s data on COVID-19 caseloads, hospitalizationand fatality, as well as intervention solutions, the southern economic hub is likely to put the coronavirussituation under control in accordance with the Minister of Health’s standardsafter mid-September, the Department of Health said in the proposal.
Medical workers deliver medicine packages to COVID-19 patients in Commune 8, District 11, HCM City. (Photo: VNA)
Its core strategy is to inoculate all adults aged above18 with two jabs of COVID-19 vaccines and start vaccinating at-risk children,for example, those with underlying illness and obesity, if vaccines areavailable.
HCM City will also step by step relax social distancingrules based on results of risk assessment, epidemiological surveillance dataand the healthcare system’s capacity, in order to restore production, supply of essentialservices and circulation of goods.
Local authorities intend to classify business sectors andunits based on their level of COVID-19 exposure risk and allow production andeconomic activities, and social interactions to gradually resume accordingly.
The Department of Health will make sure allhome-quarantined COVID-19 patients will be provided with medical monitoring by grassroots health units and receive COVID-19 medicine packages. Itplans to promptly discover and offer first aid to these patients when theirconditions turn worse; and prevent unexpected COVID-19 deaths at home.
Additionally, it will adopt exclusive mechanism andsolutions to mobilise all possible community-based resources to care forself-quarantined patients, while restoring the normal operation of the local health system to serve patients with non-COVID-19 and COVID-19 diseases.
The department is calling recovered COVID-19 patients to assist the city’s COVID-19 response. As of September 8, a totalof 1,543 patients have reportedly registered to join./.
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HCM City is calling recovered COVID-19 patients to assist its COVID-19 response. Illustrative photo. (Source: VNA)
Medical workers deliver medicine packages to COVID-19 patients in Commune 8, District 11, HCM City. (Photo: VNA)
Caring fore critically-ill COVID-19 patients. (Photo: VNA) 
