Illustrative image (Photo: vnexpress.net) HCMCity (VNS/VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City is planning to pilot COVID-19green cards in districts 7, Can Gio and Cu Chi, where the pandemic hasbasically been controlled.
LamDinh Thang, Director of the Department of Information and Communications, saidthe green cards would help the city monitor people who would become eligible totravel and work based on COVID-19 preventive criteria.
Itwould include information about holders’ vaccination, COVID-19 testing and healthdeclaration status, he said.
Whenit is approved by the Government, it would be put into use in districts 7, CanGio and Cu Chi, he added.
Thegreen cards will be issued to people who are vaccinated after a minimum of twoweeks from the time they get their second shots of Astrazeneca, Pfizer,Moderna, Sinopharm, or Sputnik V vaccines or one shot of Johnson &Johnson's Janssen vaccine or if they have fully recovered after contractingCOVID.
Thecard will be valid for six months.
Accordingto the city’s Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, districts7, Cu Chi and Can Gio have been chosen as socio-economic development models forthe new normal period with efforts to be made to revive their economy.
Thethree districts will allow the resumption of trading in essential products andstreet businesses with stringent safety conditions for a month from September20.
Everyoneinvolved in these businesses must be fully vaccinated and comply with all theconditions set by local authorities.
The businesses will initially be allowed to operate from 6am to 6pm./.
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