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HCM City ready to respond to COVID-19 pandemic during Tet

Ho Chi Minh City's health sector is ready to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic during the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays and festival season 2023.
HCM City ready to respond to COVID-19 pandemic during Tet ảnh 1A health worker checks the body temperature of foreign passengers at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City's health sector is ready to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic during the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holidays and festival season 2023.

The city will closely monitor arrivals at Tan Son NhatInternational Airport and sea ports, using remote body temperature scanners. Peoplewith suspected symptoms will be taken to isolate areas for screening, epidemiologicalanalysis and collecting samples for COVID-19 rapid tests.

In case the rapid test result is negative, the passenger willcontinue to complete immigration procedures and be instructed to self-monitorat their accommodation establishments.

In case of a positive test result, HCM City's Centre for DiseaseControl will coordinate with relevant agencies to expedite immigrationprocedures for the patient and then transfer the passenger to the Hospital forTropical Diseases for RT-PCR testing and gene sequencing as well as taking necessary measures to prevent the spread of the disease.

The municipal Department of Health will maintain the temporaryCOVID-19 treatment hospital No.13 and be ready to activate within 24 hours whenthe pandemic situation worsens. All general and specialised hospitals in thecity must be ready to receive and treat COVID-19 patients.

The city is ready to deploy 10,000 beds, including 1,000 intensivecare unit (ICU) beds for COVID-19 patients.

All hospitals in the city must be ready in terms of humanresources, facilities, equipment, medicines, and vehicles and on duty roundthe clock to meet medical examination and treatment requirements andemergencies during the Lunar New Year and festival season 2023.

The health sector will promote COVID-19vaccinations and organise the peak month of vaccination from January 5 to the endof February, including the Tet holidays, to create favourable conditions forall people to be vaccinated on schedule./.

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