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Health Ministry orders strengthening reporting of new COVID-19 cases

The Ministry of Health has ordered health departments to strengthen the management and reporting of new COVID-19 cases.
Health Ministry orders strengthening reporting of new COVID-19 cases ảnh 1A medical worker prepares medicine for COVID-19 patients at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases' Intensive Care Unit (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - The Ministry of Health has ordered healthdepartments to strengthen the management and reporting of new COVID-19 cases.

The move came after a series of fast-spreading sub-variants ofOmicron (BA.4, BA.5, BA.2.75 and BA.2.12.1) were reported in the country.

According to the ministry’s General Department of PreventiveMedicine, the number of COVID-19 cases has been on the rise in both Vietnam andaround the world.

The country is currently recording an average of about 2,000 newcases each day. The number of new cases is believed to be on the rise again.

Therefore, in order to actively prevent and control the COVID-19pandemic, the department told leaders of health departments nationwide toregularly and promptly review and report new cases of COVID-19.

The localities must comply with regulations on reporting new casesand fully declare new cases of COVID-19 within 24 hours as prescribed by theministry so that the figures can be sent to the National Steering Committee forCOVID-19 Prevention and Control and the Prime Minister.

The localities should avoid reporting additional numbers of newCOVID-19 cases that could lead to an inaccurate reflection of the pandemic andcause difficulties for forecasting, the department said.

Recently, Hai Phong city has registered an additional 402,830 newcases of COVID-19 that had not been previously reported. Thai Nguyen provinceregistered an additional 152,485 new cases and Nghe An province has registeredan additional 4,400 new cases.

Localities must continue to declare and obtain patient codes onthe ministry's automatic code-granting system right after the test results showpatients are positive for SARS-CoV-2, the department said.

Localities need to regularly assess risk levels to promptly adjustmeasures to prevent and control the pandemic according to Resolution 128/NQ-CP;strengthen surveillance, early detection and treatment of new COVID-19 cases tolimit severe cases and deaths.

Data from the ministry shows that Vietnam had confirmed 11,370,462cases of COVID-19 as of August 16, ranking 12th out of 227 countries andterritories since the beginning of the pandemic.

The total number of recoveries rose to over 10 million. On August16, there were 99 patients needing breathing support.

The country has so far administered more than 252 million doses ofvaccines./.
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