HCM City ready for citywide social distancing amid pandemic complexities
Ho Chi Minh City has geared up plans to ensure that people’s life will not be affected once citywide social distancing is imposed, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong told a videoconference on July 7.
Members of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control at the videoconference with HCM City officials on July 7 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Ho Chi MinhCity has geared up plans to ensure that people’s life will not be affected oncecitywide social distancing is imposed, Chairman of themunicipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong told a videoconference on July7.
At the meeting with standingmembers of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control,Phong said 107 sites in 22 districts of Vietnam’s most populous city have beenput on lockdown in the fourth wave of outbreaks.
He noted that among the 7,450 infectioncases confirmed by the Ministry of Health, 82 percent are recorded inquarantine sites or sealed-off areas, 4 percent found via screening tests inthe community, about 13 percent detected via screening at hospitals, and nearly1 percent are imported cases.
The pandemic’s complexity, high population density, and economic vibrancy areposing numerous challenges to HCM City in the disease combat, he said, adding thelocal administration held that it is necessary to take more drastic andstronger actions while sacrificing short-term interests to guarantee long-termdevelopment and safety for people.
To keep people’s daily lifestable, municipal authorities are working to increase goods supplies for moderndistribution systems and activate the market stabilisation programme, the chairmansaid.
The city has also finished examination and arrangement for 43 enterprises with56,000 employees to concurrently carry out quarantine and sustain productionactivities in export processing, industrial, and hi-tech parks as in line withMinistry of Health’s guidelines, according to Phong.
Deputy Minister of Transport Le AnhTuan asked HCM City and other localities to ensure smooth transportation ofgoods while Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen urged the southerncity to seriously carry out social distancing measures in each family andeach residential area.
At the meeting, Deputy Prime MinisterVu Duc Dam, head of the national steering committee, told the city to continuepreparing for higher-level social distancing and make stronger moves to curb theoutbreak sooner but still guarantee people’s life./.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued a dispatch requiring intensified efforts to better COVID-19 prevention and control amidst complex developments of the pandemic in Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnam’s largest economic hub.
Hanoi will strictly monitor people returning from pandemic-hit areas who are requested to be tested for the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 three times and quarantined at home within seven days.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has requested provincial-level localities nationwide to impose home quarantine on people coming or returning from Ho Chi Minh City for seven days and conduct COVID-19 testing for them thrice, given the complex and unpredictable developments of the COVID-19 pandemic in the southern largest city.
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Members of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control at the videoconference with HCM City officials on July 7 (Photo: VNA) 
