Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam chairs the meeting (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Local authorities must be held responsible for transmissionsin hospitals, members of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19Prevention and Control said at a meeting in Hanoi on August 6.
DeputyPrime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of the committee, presided over the function toimplement preventive measures in the changing circumstances.
ActingMinister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said the ministry is exerting every effortto deal with the outbreak in the central city of Da Nang.
Patientsand their family members as well as medical staff are in the highest-riskgroup, he said, adding that those returning from Da Nang since July 1 need to remainvigilant.
Somelocalities, in fact, lowered their guard and relaxed preventive measures, Longpointed out, adding that health facilities and hospitals nationwide must seriouslyimplement preventive and containment measures such as wearing face masks and followingsocial distancing measures.
Theministry is also intensifying testing capacity to quickly detect any newinfections.
Membersof the committee spoke highly of the active engagement and close coordinationof the public security, military, and health forces in the fight againstCOVID-19 right from the beginning of the outbreak.
Thecommittee urged Da Nang and certain districts and towns in neighbouring QuangNam province to implement strict social distancing measures.
Accordingto the Ministry of Health, as of the morning of August 6, Vietnam had recorded717 COVID-19 cases, including 381 recoveries and nine deaths. More than 320 of allinfections nationwide were imported./.
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