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HCM City: 96 percent of workers return to work after Tet holiday

As of February 10 morning, more than 1.9 million workers, or 96 percent of the total number in Ho Chi Minh City had got back to work after the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday – the longest festival in Vietnam, a local official said.
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HCM City (VNA) – As of February 10morning, more than 1.9 million workers, or 96 percent of the total number in Ho Chi Minh City had got back to work after the Lunar NewYear (Tet) holiday  – the longest festival in Vietnam, a local official said.

Nguyen Van Lam, Deputy Director of the HCM CityDepartment of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, told a regular meeting on COVID-19 control and economic recovery on February10 that a number of enterprises have secured orders until July and issuedpolicies to keep employees.

The southern economic hub would need around 30,000labourers after Tet, mainly to serve trade, technology, information,garment-textile, food and foodstuff sectors, he said.

Tran Ngoc Trung, Standing Vice Chairman of the HCMCity Federation of Labour, said the ratio of returning workers is higherthan that in the previous years.

More than 86 percent of workers have got the thirdjab of COVID-19 vaccines, and the rate even stands at 96 percent in industrialparks, he noted.

At the meeting, the municipal Department of Educationand Training also reported that students from the seventh to 12th grades had resumed in-person learning at school, and preparations are underway to reopen school forprimary students and sixth graders on February 14.

The city will reopen more schools from March 1depending on the latest situation.

Regarding the COVID-19 situation, the HealthDepartment said the number of infections rose slightly after the holiday, with242 cases detected on February 10. Omicron cases remain at 92 with nofatalities.

The caseload would increase in the coming time butserious cases and deaths would not rise, even decreasing thanks to goodtreatment, said Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai, Chief of Office of the Health Department.

The city will shut down three temporary COVOID-19 treatmenthospitals, which were diverted from resettlement buildings.

The local health sector has also set out a plan tovaccinate children aged from 5-11, and will coordinate with relevant agenciesto make lists of children, and set up emergency teams to ensure safety duringthe vaccination.

The city currently has 88 COVID-19 patients in critical conditions, including 13 on ECMO support. On February 9, 97 COVID-19 patients were hospitalised, 39 discharged from hospital and four died. As of 6pm February 9, a total of 618 COVID-19 patients were being treated at hospital, including 35 under-16 children./.

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