HCM City People’s Committee vice chairman Duong Anh Duc heads a team to check Pouyuen Vietnam Co.Ltd on June 10 after a COVID-19 case was recorded there. (Photo: VNA) A team led by People’s Committee vice chairman Duong Anh Duc and healthexperts will be set up to carry out procedures related to negotiations forvaccine supplies, consultations and organisation of inoculations, he said.
The city aims to vaccinate two thirds of its population this year, has aroadmap with a priority list of people because of limited supply yet, but wouldalso ensure a sufficient number of people get vaccinated, he said.
District 12 authorities sought permission from the People’s Committee tocontinue district-wide social distancing under the Government’s Directive No.15 after 15 days of social distancing under the more stringent Directive No. 16in its Thanh Loc ưard.
Le Truong Hai Hieu, its chairman, said Thanh Loc has not recorded morenew COVID-19 cases since social distancing began.
Tan Thoi Nhat ward has the largest number of COVID-19 cases in thedistrict, 51, he said.
The district has set up a quarantine with 100 beds at the Tran Phu SecondarySchool.
Nguyen Tri Dung, chairman of the Go Vap People’s Committee, said thedistrict has had 106 COVID patients, including five whose status would beannounced by the Ministry of Health.
According to the city Department of Health, the city’s largest cluster,which began in Go Vap on May 26, has seen 441 cases.
They include one each from four industrial parks. But thanks to earlydetection, there has been no spread from them to other workers, it said.
The city has so far controlled Go Vap cluster well, it said.
Dung said 15 days of social distancing is enough for the district.
He said locals have complied strictly with regulations on socialdistancing under the Directive No.16. Non-essential services enterprises haveclosed.
The district has seven markets, seven supermarkets, and 200 conveniencestores open to keep prices steady he said.
The district also identified facilities for use as quarantine.
The Tan Binh District People’s Committee sought permission from the cityfor social distancing under the Directive No. 15 for one more week.
Director of the municipal Department of Health Nguyen Tan Binh said many smallCOVID clusters have been found this week in the city, but due to socialdistancing, the risk has been low.
In the clusters found in a warehouse in Hoc Mon district, Ehomeapartment building in Binh Tan district and a family in Thu Duc city, onlypeople in the infected people’s family were found infected, he said.
The city is monitoring the clusters, he said.
Binh said the city would continue to tighten preventive measures,especially at industrial parks and export processing zones, to detect, localiseand stamping out outbreaks in a timely manner.
Duong Hong Thang, chairman of the Hoc Mon People’s Committee, saidmanual workers and street vendors should be tested since they make up 70 percent of the district’s patients so far./.
VNA
