HCM City sees positive signals after tightening COVID-19 control measures
Ho Chi Minh City has seen positive results after seven days since authorities tightened social distancing and COVID-19 control measures, according to the municipal Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
HCM City completes rapid testing in high-risk areas with nearly 1.68 million samples collected over the past week. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City has seen positive results after seven days since authorities tightened social distancing and COVID-19 control measures, according to the municipal Steering Committee for COVID-19Prevention and Control.
HCM City has completed rapid testing in high-risk areaswith nearly 1.68 million samples collected over the past week, detecting 64,299 infectionsor 3.8 percent, the committee’s deputy head Pham Duc Hai told a pressconference on the city’s COVID-19 situation on August 29.
The city will conduct tests for residents in the high-risk areas for the second round and speed up the testing at low-risk areas, he said.
A policeman checks travel paper of a HCM City resident at the To Ky - Nguyen Van Qua checkpoint. (Photo: VNA)
Hai added that HCM City has so far inoculatedover 5.86 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines and provided financial aid worthclose to 59 billion VND (or about 2.6 million USD) to 53,776 poor households.
Special working groups set up in 312 wards, communes andtowns of the city are cooperating with local authorities to go proxy shopping foressential goods ordered by residents with each having their orders delivered oncea week, said Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Industry and TradeNguyen Nguyen Phuong.
A representative from the municipal Department of Health,meanwhile, stated that medicine bags have given to COVID-19patients undergoing treatment at home.
HCM City has also dispatched a total of 754 officialsdivided into various working groups to assist COVID-19 response efforts in its21 districts and Thu Duc city.
HCM City, the country’s current largest coronavirushotspot, had recorded 205,466 COVID-19 cases as of 6pm on August 29. SinceJanuary 1, 2021, 104,844 COVID-19 patients have recovered while 8,624 have died of the disease./.
Ho Chi Minh City’s People's Committee on August 27 received medical supplies and vehicles worth 161 billion VND donated by the Truong Hai Automobile Joint Stock Company (THACO) in support of the city's COVD-19 fight.
A programme presenting 10,000 medication bags for COVID-19 patients under home treatment in Ho Chi Minh City, the biggest pandemic hot spot at present, was launched by the city’s Union of Business Associations (HUBA) on August 28.
The Vietnam Young Entrepreneurs' Association (VYEA) and the Ho Chi Minh City Young Physicians Association have jointly launched a programme called “ATM - Medical bags” to support COVID-19 patients undergoing treatment at home in the city which has been hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has allowed shippers to resume operations in eight COVID-19 “red zones” under certain conditions from August 30.
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HCM City completes rapid testing in high-risk areas with nearly 1.68 million samples collected over the past week. (Photo: VNA)
A policeman checks travel paper of a HCM City resident at the To Ky - Nguyen Van Qua checkpoint. (Photo: VNA) 
