Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed a dispatch requiring ministries, sectors and localities to intensify the implementation of COVID-19 prevention and control measures.
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed a dispatch requiring ministries, sectors and localities to intensify the implementation of COVID-19prevention and control measures.
DispatchNo. 1068/CD-TTg issued on August 5 noted that despite a number of initialpositive results in COVID-19 prevention and control, the pandemic is developingcomplicatedly and may prolong, threatening the health and lives of people and greatlyharming socio-economic development.
ThePM requested the heads of the People’s Committees of centrally-run cities andprovinces, ministries and sectors to enhance the supervision over theimplementation of pandemic prevention and control measures, while working harder to carry out particular solutions.
Toprevent the spreading of the pandemic, the PM requested the high-speed COVID-19testing in locked-down and high risk areas as well as for people showingtypical symptoms, thus discovering and quarantining F0s.
Inorder to minimise COVID-19-related deaths, it is crucial to make highest preparations forCOVID-19 treatment and ensuring medical supplies and equipment such as oxygen and respirators, while mobilising human recourses and medical supplies from allsectors, including the private sector in COVID-19 treatment, he asked.
Atthe same time, he stressed the need to speed up the progress of vaccination bysetting up more fixed and mobile vaccination stations and preparing vaccinestorage.
Inthe dispatch, the PM also directed ministries, sectors and localities to quickly implementsupport policies for COVID-19-hit people and businesses, and propose more suitable support policies./.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son proposed Switzerland continue to assist Vietnam in getting access to COVID-19 vaccine supplies, treatment medicines and necessary medical equipment during his talks with Swiss Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ignazio Cassis in Hanoi on August 5.
Vietnam detected 4,009 new COVID-19 cases over the last 12 hours to 6am on August 6, putting the national tally at 189,066, according to the Ministry of Health.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked the Ministry of Health (MoH) to promptly allocate more COVID-19 vaccines to Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces, which are the country’s current largest hotspots.
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Under the agreement, VNVC and Sanofi will gradually implement technology transfers to enable domestic production of several key Sanofi vaccines that are widely used in Vietnam. In addition, Sanofi will support VNVC in training human resources and quality management in vaccine research and manufacturing.
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.
COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA) 
