Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam (middle) at the meeting (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam hasrequested authorities to give the top priority to localising and soon wipingout the COVID-19 hotbed in the central city of Da Nang.
Chairing a meeting of the National Steering Committee forCOVID-19 Prevention and Control in Hanoi on July 31, Dam, who is also head ofthe committee, lauded the Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of NationalDefence and Ministry of Health for sending more experts and staff to join in thefight against the pandemic in Da Nang.
As new infection cases are mostly related to three hospitalsin the city, he asked localities, especially major cities, to strengthencountermeasures.
Amid the rapid and complicated developments of the pandemicworldwide, members of the committee agreed to suggest the PM issue a document orderingpreparedness in the new normal period in case of outbreaks like in Da Nang.
The Ministry of Education and Training was also required toprepare plans for the upcoming high school graduation examination in line withthe Prime Minister’s Directive 16/CT-TTg.
At the event, Director of the Health Ministry’s Departmentof Preventive Medicine Dang Quang Tan said as of 7pm on July 31, Vietnamrecorded 546 infection cases, including one death, a 70-year-old man residingin Hoi An city in the central province of Quang Nam.
Acting Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said thepandemic in Da Nang is relatively complicated because infection source remainsunknown.
As many patients there also suffer other severe diseases,the Health Ministry has deployed the best equipment and staff to the locality,he said, adding that testing capacity has also been raised to 10,000 samplesper day.
According to him, the ministry established a specialpermanent unit in charge of COVID-19 combat in the city, continued tracing downthose travelling to and from Da Nang and its hospitals, as well as collectingsamples for testing. Over 451,400 Realtime RT-PCR tests have been carried outnationwide so far.
Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Van Phucsaid the 2020 high school graduation examination is still on schedule forAugust 8-10.
He added that the Ministry of Education and Training willcontinue working closely with the Health Ministry and localities to ensure theexam amid the pandemic.
About the repatriation of Vietnamese citizens from abroad,Deputy Foreign Minister To Anh Dung said the Foreign Ministry coordinated with representativeVietnamese agencies abroad and domestic authorities to arrange flights forprioritised citizens, including 219 from Equatorial Guinea on July 29 who wereimmediately sent to the second branch of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseasesin Hanoi’s outlying district of Dong Anh for testing and treatment.
Other flights also carried home 212 citizens from Indonesiaon July 29, 170 others from Brunei on July 29, about 290 from the US on July 3,and 240 from Myanmar on July 30./.
Chairing a meeting of the National Steering Committee forCOVID-19 Prevention and Control in Hanoi on July 31, Dam, who is also head ofthe committee, lauded the Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of NationalDefence and Ministry of Health for sending more experts and staff to join in thefight against the pandemic in Da Nang.
As new infection cases are mostly related to three hospitalsin the city, he asked localities, especially major cities, to strengthencountermeasures.
Amid the rapid and complicated developments of the pandemicworldwide, members of the committee agreed to suggest the PM issue a document orderingpreparedness in the new normal period in case of outbreaks like in Da Nang.
The Ministry of Education and Training was also required toprepare plans for the upcoming high school graduation examination in line withthe Prime Minister’s Directive 16/CT-TTg.
At the event, Director of the Health Ministry’s Departmentof Preventive Medicine Dang Quang Tan said as of 7pm on July 31, Vietnamrecorded 546 infection cases, including one death, a 70-year-old man residingin Hoi An city in the central province of Quang Nam.
Acting Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said thepandemic in Da Nang is relatively complicated because infection source remainsunknown.
As many patients there also suffer other severe diseases,the Health Ministry has deployed the best equipment and staff to the locality,he said, adding that testing capacity has also been raised to 10,000 samplesper day.
According to him, the ministry established a specialpermanent unit in charge of COVID-19 combat in the city, continued tracing downthose travelling to and from Da Nang and its hospitals, as well as collectingsamples for testing. Over 451,400 Realtime RT-PCR tests have been carried outnationwide so far.
Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Van Phucsaid the 2020 high school graduation examination is still on schedule forAugust 8-10.
He added that the Ministry of Education and Training willcontinue working closely with the Health Ministry and localities to ensure theexam amid the pandemic.
About the repatriation of Vietnamese citizens from abroad,Deputy Foreign Minister To Anh Dung said the Foreign Ministry coordinated with representativeVietnamese agencies abroad and domestic authorities to arrange flights forprioritised citizens, including 219 from Equatorial Guinea on July 29 who wereimmediately sent to the second branch of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseasesin Hanoi’s outlying district of Dong Anh for testing and treatment.
Other flights also carried home 212 citizens from Indonesiaon July 29, 170 others from Brunei on July 29, about 290 from the US on July 3,and 240 from Myanmar on July 30./.
VNA
