World Health Organisation (WHO) Representative in Vietnam Dr. Kidong Park. (Photo: Ministry of Health)Park made the statement at a meeting with Minister ofHealth Nguyen Thanh Long on August 3 during which the two sides discussed theCOVID-19 resurgence caused by Delta variant in many countries, includingVietnam.
He expressed his confidence that Vietnam can weather theCOVID-19 storm with the participation of both the political system and people.
The super infectious Delta variant is causing variousdifficulties for Vietnam’s efforts to keep the virus at bay but the country ison the right track to fight the virus with many measures put in place, he said.
To cope with the ongoing outbreak, Vietnam has beenundertaking virus control measures that are more drastic and stronger thanever, with social distancing order imposed in many cities and provinces. Somesouthern localities even do not allow their residents to go out during certaintime frames.
He highly spoke of the Ministry of Health (MoH)’s swiftresponse by promptly establishing Intensive Care Centres in Ho Chi Minh Cityand southern localities to treat critically-ill patients so as to minimisefatalities.
These centres have engaged a number of leading medicalexperts to treat COVID-19 patients. HCM City now has five centres of this kind,providing a total of 2,700 beds.
The official emphasised that all WHO-approved COVID-19vaccines are safe and effective and WHO is willing to help the MoH heighten itscapacity in testing, evaluating and authorising homegrown vaccines under themandate of the WHO-certified National Regulatory Authority (NRA).
WHO will soon exchange with the Vietnamese side onrelevant works, he concluded.
Vietnam has been accelerating its effort to accessCOVID-19 vaccine supplies with an aim to secure enough doses for 70 percent ofits population. But limited supplies remain a huge challenge to the country, which has been hit by the worst-ever coronavirus wave since late April./.
VNA
