HCM City completes rapid testing in high-risk areas with nearly 1.68 million samples collected over the past week. (Photo: VNA)HCM City has completed rapid testing in high-risk areaswith nearly 1.68 million samples collected over the past week, detecting 64,299 infectionsor 3.8 percent, the committee’s deputy head Pham Duc Hai told a pressconference on the city’s COVID-19 situation on August 29.
The city will conduct tests for residents in the high-risk areas for the second round and speed up the testing at low-risk areas, he said.
A policeman checks travel paper of a HCM City resident at the To Ky - Nguyen Van Qua checkpoint. (Photo: VNA) Special working groups set up in 312 wards, communes andtowns of the city are cooperating with local authorities to go proxy shopping foressential goods ordered by residents with each having their orders delivered oncea week, said Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Industry and TradeNguyen Nguyen Phuong.
A representative from the municipal Department of Health,meanwhile, stated that medicine bags have given to COVID-19patients undergoing treatment at home.
HCM City has also dispatched a total of 754 officialsdivided into various working groups to assist COVID-19 response efforts in its21 districts and Thu Duc city.
HCM City, the country’s current largest coronavirushotspot, had recorded 205,466 COVID-19 cases as of 6pm on August 29. SinceJanuary 1, 2021, 104,844 COVID-19 patients have recovered while 8,624 have died of the disease./.
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