Dam, who is also head of the committee, urged the city to strengthen transport ofnewly-infectious cases to treatment facilities, especially those with worseningsymptoms.
HCM City needs to ensure the supply of essential goods and food to stabilisepeople's lives and encourage people to share the immediate difficulties tostrictly comply with social distancing regulations, he added.
Deputy Prime Minister Dam requested quicker testing, saying forces need to quicklycollect samples, organise testing, and quarantine infection cases.
Also on the day, Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh inspectedCOVID-19 prevention and control of in Dong Thap province.
He underscored the Mekong Delta province's goal of reducing the number of casesand deaths during the social distancing period, while protecting productionactivities of enterprises to both fight pandemic and develop the economy.
The province needs to focus on mobilising resources for COVID-19 prevention andcontrol, carry out social and security work, and help vulnerable anddisadvantaged people, he said./.