Deputy Prime Minister and head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control Vu Duc Dam (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - DeputyPrime Minister and head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19Prevention and Control Vu Duc Dam on March 8 requested compulsory healthdeclarations for all citizens in the country to start on March 10 at thelatest.
He made the announcement at a meeting of the committee in Hanoi.
He asked the Ministry of Information and Communications, Ministry of Health, VietnamSocial Security and all network providers to plan and prepare technologicaltools so the declarations can be done online across the country.
The Deputy PM also requested measures to be applied to prevent Vietnamesecitizens from leaving the countries and travelling to countries where COVID-19infection has been reported, and advised citizens to only travel abroad whenabsolutely necessary.
Compulsory electronic health declarations for all passengers entering Vietnamstarted on March 7 upon Deputy PM Dam’s request.
The declarations could be made on the website http://www.suckhoetoandan.vn/khaiyte,or at the airports before boarding.
As of March 8, Vietnam had 30 confirmed cases of infections with 16 havingrecovered.
The Hanoi People’s Committee on the same day proposed for an announcement of aCOVID-19 epidemic in the city.
Statistics from the Ministry of Health showed that by March 8, Hanoi has fourCOVID-19 patients, and one suspected case in Ba Dinh district.
Four COVID-19 patients included N.H.N, 27, who was staying on Truc Bach streetin Ba Dinh district and was defined as the 17th COVID-19 patients of Vietnam, a27-year-old man – N.’s driver, a 64-year-old woman – N.’s aunt, and a61-year-old man – seating on the same row with N. on her flight from London toHanoi.
Accordingly, a total of 130 people came into contact with N., and 226 otherswith people who had contact with N.
The city authorities have quarantined sections of Truc Bach street containing66 households with 189 people living there.
The Hong Ngọc Hospital, where N. had come for health examination, wassterilised.
People had close contact with the patients, and those who have come to contactwith people having close contact with the patients, are in quarantine.
Twenty samples taken from people having close contact with N. showed negativeresults, and another is waiting for test result.
The authorities have also investigated 217 people who were on the same flightwith N. It was the Vietnam Airlines flight VN0054 from London that landed atthe Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi at 4.30am on March 2. They included21 people in business class, 180 others in economy class and 16 crew members.
Now 155 out of 180 passengers in economy class and all 21 people in businessclass have been found. Sixty are in Hanoi.
In another development, the MoH on March 8 confirmed Minister of Planning andInvestment Nguyen Chi Dung had tested negative to COVID-19.
Earlier some rumours on social network said that he was tested positive to thedisease after being on the same flight with N.
The MoH said that his samples were tested in two laboratories reaching nationalnorms and World Health Organisation (WHO)’s norms, and the results werenegative.
Now he is in quarantine and under close supervision in stable condition.
Earlier, Dung and other experts from the Ministry of Planning and Investmentwere on the same business class with N./.
VNA
