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Mobile container labs for COVID-19 testing to be launched

Mobile container labs for COVID-19 testing would be used in the time ahead as Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has signed an official dispatch regarding the installation of the labs.
Mobile container labs for COVID-19 testing to be launched ảnh 1Medical workers conduct COVID-19 testing in Vietnam (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Mobile container labs forCOVID-19 testing would be used in the time ahead as Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai has signed an official dispatch regarding the installation of the labs.
The document was sent to the Ministries of Health,Finance, National Defence and Public Security after the Ministry of Health hadraised a proposal on the use of the labs.

Under the document, Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khaiasked the Ministry of Health to bear responsibility for assessing the quality ofthe mobile container labs in terms of technical and professional standards,safety and efficiency, as well as reported information and data.

He assigned the Ministry of Finance to coordinate withthe Ministries of Health, National Defence and Public Security to assess theestimate and propose the Prime Minister provide funding for the relevantministries to roll out the project.
Mobile container labs for COVID-19 testing to be launched ảnh 2The Bluezone app has been used for COVID-19 contact tracing. (Photo: VNA)
Meanwhile, the Government has asked the Ministries ofHealth, and Information and Communications to step up the deployment of IT applications in COVID-19prevention and control.

Earlier, the Ministry of Information andCommunications (MIC) had proposed utilising several IT applications and thecamera systems in the pandemic fight.

Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam urged the ministry to quicklycomplete software and IT solutions assigned by the National Steering Committeefor COVID-19 Prevention and Control and transfer them to the Ministry of Health forimplementation.

MIC will instruct the building of IT solutions andsoftware on the basis of the Ministry of Health’s proposal.

For software and IT solutions initiated by MIC orfirms, the two ministries will work together in the application./.



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