Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam speaks at the meeting (Photo: VNA)The affirmation was made during an online meeting betweenDeputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, who is also head of the National SteeringCommittee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, and the city’s leading officialson July 11.
Along with intensifying dissemination to make locals abide byregulations and punishment of any violations, Deputy PM Dam stressed that thebiggest goal after the social distancing is to define districts, wards andcommunes that are safe in order to turn them into a new normal as soon aspossible.
To that end, all the work, especially epidemiological investigationand testing, must be conducted quickly and surely.
He asked the city to improve the testing capacity, andconduct testing at home for people with COVID-19 symptoms, the elderly and thosewith underlying diseases.
Municipal authorities were also required to pay moreattention to locals, particularly the poor and the homeless, with the aim ofleaving no one short of food.
The official highly valued the city’s efforts toensure environmental sanitation, including the treatment of medical waste, requestingextra efforts to solve shortcomings in this field.
Speaking at the meeting, Chairman of the municipal People’s CommitteeNguyen Thanh Phong said that on July 10, the largest and most populous city of Vietnam recorded1,403 new COVID-19 infections, mostly in quarantine sites and locked-downareas.
The city has put into operation new concentrated quarantinesites, hospitals for COVID-19 treatment, as well as wards dedicated to treatingcritical patients, he stated.
The city leader affirmed that the volume of goods atsupermarkets and convenience stores remain stable.
Since July 6, the city has provided support for 45,000locals, and carried a support package worth nearly 900 billion VND (39.2million USD)./.
VNA
