Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of the NationalSteering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control, chaired ameeting of the committee in Hanoi on June 4 to discuss the country’s ongoing pandemic response.
Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said the ministry has set upteams to inspect quarantine work in the provinces of Ba Ria - Vung Tau, QuangNgai, Bac Ninh, and Thai Nguyen, and the quarantining of flight crews at severalhotels in Hanoi.
The ministry will shortly enhance its inspection over the quarantiningof foreign experts elsewhere around the country.
More than 1,800 experts are now under quarantine and about 2,700 otherswill arrive in June and July.
The committee asked ministries, agencies, and localities to continuewith quarantine measures in accordance with the ministry’s guidelines.
They also discussed the return of Vietnamese expats, investors,technical experts, highly-skilled workers, and corporate executives to thecountry.
Participants agreed with the ministry’s suggestion of offering exemption of certificates proving negative testing to SARS-CoV-2 for technicians,highly-skilled workers. and investors when they enter Vietnam.
They highlighted the need to perform compulsory 14-day quarantining andtaking samples from foreign arrivals for testing.
Army units are responsible for monitoring the quarantining of Lao,Cambodian, and Chinese students at concentrated dormitories.
According to the Health Ministry, Vietnam had reported 328 COVID-19infections as of June 4, 302 of whom had fully recovered, or 92 percent of thetotal.
The country also reported its49th day in succession without community transmission./.
