Ho Chi Minh City continues social distancing under Directive 16 until the end of September

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At the press conference, Mr. Phan Van Mai - Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, said that in the past time, the city has made efforts to prevent epidemics, especially during the peak time from August 23 to now, Ho Chi Minh city has received deep attention and received a lot of attention from the central government, each locality, the people of the city, the people of the city abroad, with high support from the people and the business community.

The drastic and synchronous participation of the grassroots political system also helps the "fortresses", factories and enterprises do better in epidemic prevention.

Distance work is strictly implemented, the ratio of red and orange areas is quite narrow, and green areas are wider. The city is in the process of redrawing the green zone map. The rate of positive cases decreased markedly through the tests, the green area widened.

The localities of Can Gio, Cu Chi and District 7 have basically achieved epidemic control according to the criteria of the Ministry of Health, and the other 5 localities have also reached very good results. It is expected that on September 15, some more localities will announce positive results.

In addition, the management of collection and treatment of F0 improved significantly. The management of F0 at home is highly appreciated, suitable for the situation of HCMC.

F0 is classified, counseled and has early access to medicine and medical care, so home care for F0 is very effective.

The capacity of the treatment floors has improved, achieving the result is that the number of emergency cases is reduced, the number of deaths is reduced, etc. is an indicator that the results have been achieved, gradually moving towards the control of the indicators. .

Vaccination so far has reached over 6.5 million 1st shots, which is a good rate, 2nd shots are over 1.3 million (not including today), reaching 19%. Vaccine coverage is an important condition to restore new life and expand economic activities later.

From time to time, each locality, depending on the situation, has opened activities, for example opening supermarkets in communes and wards associated with active shippers. The supply of goods has increased significantly, and the take-out food service has also been opened and started to meet the needs of people.

However, Mr. Mai said that compared to the criteria of the Ministry of Health, the city has not achieved enough. Therefore, in order to ensure better results, gradually loosen and harmonize the anti-epidemic and reopening... The city decided to continue the social distancing according to Directive 16, expected until the end of September.

Some areas have good results such as Can Gio, Cu Chi, District 7, Phu Nhuan, Nha Be in the spirit of 16-, 15 to ensure sustainable results.

Gradually opening some safety services

Regarding the things to be done in the near future, Mr. Mai said:

Firstly, the city is accelerating the speed of vaccination, because vaccine coverage is a safe opening condition.

Second, focus on strengthening healthcare capacity, especially at grassroots level, fixed and mobile medical stations, etc., invest more in public and private health care. In addition, the city has improved its treatment capacity at all floors to be able to deal with emerging disease problems.

Third, prepare an economic recovery plan from September onwards.

Fourth, the city will organize a public consultation, so that the plan for both epidemic prevention and control and economic recovery is more complete, meeting the conditions and situation of the epidemic.

Fifth, the city continues to pilot a number of safety services to serve the needs of people and businesses, such as food production, medical equipment, and pharmaceuticals; delivery services, transportation, finance, banking, public services.

According to Mr. Mai, the pilot expansion must be absolutely safe, the spirit of ensuring the health of the people is the highest.

Safe people, safe operations are the criteria for issuing a Green Card

"The epidemic is still going on for a long time, it is necessary to determine the attitude to live in epidemic conditions. Therefore, daily life and activities must also take place in the context of the epidemic. Therefore, it is necessary to harmonize social distancing and recovery. economic recovery," said Mr. Hai.

The Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City also added that it is necessary to prepare safe conditions, approach the perspective of measuring indicators, such as tolerance and the health system, and monitor the infection rate to prevent infection. F0 identification, early access, treatment, prevention of spread. The health sector will monitor, measure and update regularly, the relaxation or distance also depends on daily monitoring.

According to Mr. Mai, people's daily life is based on a set of safety criteria for safe areas and safe operations, such as: safe people, safe operations and one of the components of the set of criteria is the COVID-19 Green Card.

Based on vaccination conditions, or tests and other criteria such as 5K, 3T to make adjustments.

"Safety is also assessed by location. When there is positive progress, activities will be expanded, otherwise, there will be an adjustment told.

For localities that basically control when opening activities with movement back and forth, how to ensure safety is also based on criteria, mechanisms and monitoring tools.

According to Mr. Mai, to live in epidemic conditions, people should prepare themselves to protect themselves, in addition to the things that the city is implementing.

Tu Quy
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