Thu Dau Mot downtown quiet during social distancing days (Photo: VNA) The southern industrial hub reported a record of 5,414 newcases on August 29, pushing the province's count in the fourth wave of infections to over 104,000. Its deathtoll has reached 819.
According to the provincial Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, Thuan An is the current biggest hotspot of the provincewith 3,341 new cases confirmed in the past 24 hours.
Binh Duong failed to complete its earlier goal ofcontrolling the pandemic and bringing the province to a new normal fromSeptember 1. The extension of social distancing measures will give time for theprovince to speed up testing to detect infections in the community.
COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA) Local authorities in the “red zones” were asked to mobilisevehicles to transport goods to provide food and necessities for local residents.
Meanwhile, Secretary of the Binh Duong Party Committee Nguyen Van Loirequested relevant forces to promptly complete the construction of temporaryhospitals for COVID-19 treatment in the province.
As scheduled, a 1,000-bed hospital in Lai Hung commune, BauVang district, is likely to be completed on August 30, while construction of anotherwith capacity of 2,800 beds will be finished in the next few days.
At the same time, Thu Dau Mot city is operating dozens ofquarantine facilities with a capacity of about 13,000 beds. Many existingestablishments have been switched to temporary hospitals for treatment of COVID-19patients.
The province has been working hard to speed up vaccinations for local residents. As of August 28, 865,441 doses of COVID-19 vaccines hadbeen injected to locals, with 37,927 people fully receiving two shots./.
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