Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung (C) (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chungshared COVID-19 prevention and control experience with mayors of other citiesin the world during an online mayoral meeting within the framework of the CitiesAgainst COVID-19 (CAC) Global Summit on June 2.
Speaking at the meeting, which attractedthe presence of mayors of 42 cities around the world, Chung appreciated theinitiative to hold the global summit of Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, as this isone of the effective measures to deal with the pandemic and serves as a premisefor the cities to cooperate in addressing economic impact caused by thepandemic.
He told participants that Hanoi, with apopulation of over 10 million, has so far reported 114 coronavirus infections,of whom 113 have been given the all-clear.
The city has gone through 48 days withoutany community transmission, he stated, adding that there have been 328 casesand no fatality confirmed in Vietnam so far.
The Hanoi leader attributed the positiveresults to the sound leadership of leaders at all levels. Specifically, rightafter the epidemic broke out, Party General Secretary and President Nguyen PhuTrong issued an appeal to the entire nation to take drastic preventionmeasures, and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc issued many directives on diseaseprevention and control based on the spirit of fighting epidemic like fightingan enemy, and prioritising people’s health over economic benefits.
Sharing the capital city’s experience,Chung said that Hanoi quickly traced people with possible contact with COVID-19patients. All people with direct contacts have been quarantined at designatedfacilities, while those with indirect contacts have been quarantined at theirhouses under the close monitoring of grassroots health clinics. At peak times,over 50,000 people were quarantined at concentrated facilities, and an entirecommune with more than 12,000 people were isolated.
In addition to rapid response and contacttracing, Hanoi has provided information about the epidemic publicly andtransparently via different means of communication, and developed the HanoiSmartcity app to monitor quarantined people, he added.
In his remarks, Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon expressedhis hope to build an inter-city cooperation network to share and facilitate theimplementation of measures in response to newly-emerging infectious diseases.
Participating cities adopted the SeoulStatement on solidarity and cooperation to fight the COVID-19 pandemic./.
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