Local authorities to be held responsible for COVID-19 transmission in hospitals
Local authorities must be held responsible for transmissions in hospitals, members of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control said at a meeting in Hanoi on August 6.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam chairs the meeting (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - Local authorities must be held responsible for transmissionsin hospitals, members of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19Prevention and Control said at a meeting in Hanoi on August 6.
DeputyPrime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of the committee, presided over the function toimplement preventive measures in the changing circumstances.
ActingMinister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said the ministry is exerting every effortto deal with the outbreak in the central city of Da Nang.
Patientsand their family members as well as medical staff are in the highest-riskgroup, he said, adding that those returning from Da Nang since July 1 need to remainvigilant.
Somelocalities, in fact, lowered their guard and relaxed preventive measures, Longpointed out, adding that health facilities and hospitals nationwide must seriouslyimplement preventive and containment measures such as wearing face masks and followingsocial distancing measures.
Theministry is also intensifying testing capacity to quickly detect any newinfections.
Membersof the committee spoke highly of the active engagement and close coordinationof the public security, military, and health forces in the fight againstCOVID-19 right from the beginning of the outbreak.
Thecommittee urged Da Nang and certain districts and towns in neighbouring QuangNam province to implement strict social distancing measures.
Accordingto the Ministry of Health, as of the morning of August 6, Vietnam had recorded717 COVID-19 cases, including 381 recoveries and nine deaths. More than 320 of allinfections nationwide were imported./.
Vietnam on August 6 morning reported four people infected with the coronavirus, including one in Hanoi and three in the central province of Quang Nam, according to the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
A 67-year-old woman who tested positive for COVID-19 linked with the outbreak in the central city of Da Nang has been confirmed dead, marking the ninth COVID-19-related fatality in Vietnam so far.
Implementing directions of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and the Ministry of Education and Training, localities are carrying out measures to ensure a safe national high school graduation exam, which is scheduled for August 8-10 across the country, except in regions with ongoing outbreaks such as the hot spots: Da Nang city and Quang Nam province.
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Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam chairs the meeting (Photo: VNA) 
