The Prime Minister has asked the Minister of Health to continue to supervise the monitoring of swine flu and come up with a suitable plan to cope with the spread of the pandemic.

In an urgent message on April 29, the PM requested the National Steering Committee on the Prevention of Human Influenza to take all the necessary measures to inspect people and goods that enter Vietnam from the affected countries and work closely with the World Health Organisation to ensure it has the latest information on the disease.

Meanwhile, the Chairmen of People’s Committees in centrally-governed provinces and cities have been directed to collaborate with the health ministry and the national steering committee to make sure local agencies adhere to instructions on how to prevent swine flu.

They are also required to inform the people in their communities about the dangers the pandemic poses so they can take suitable preventive measures./.