Prime Minister, southern localities discuss COVID-19 fight
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh
chaired an online meeting on August 19 night between permanent Government members and authorities
of Ho Chi Minh City and adjacent Binh Duong, Dong Nai and Long An provinces which are witnessing complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The meeting agreed that the complex situation in those localities is partly attributable to the highly contagious Delta variant while the density of
population in the above localities is high, but another reason is social distancing measures have not been enforced strictly enough.
Leaders
of ministries, agencies and localities suggested several measures such as
continuing with strict social distancing measures, setting up more mobile
medical stations and temporary COVID-19 treatment hospitals, expanding the
capacity of existing medical facilities, establishing working teams to
provide food and necessities for residents.
Localities also proposed the Government,
ministries and agencies concerned send more personnel, especially medical workers for
Ho Chi Minh City and the nearby provinces, add more groups eligible for support
policies, and provide more medical equipment and vaccines for those in
high-risk areas.
Concluding the event, the PM basically agreed
with the proposals and assigned tasks to Deputy PMs and leaders of ministries,
agencies and localities.
He required the localities to extend the enforcement of social distancing measures for at least two more weeks, with the level of strictness depending on the real situation in each locality.
The PM stressed that health care, logistics work, social security and social order must be ensured right at the grassroots level to meet the needs of every resident in their daily life as well as for medical care.
On the occasion, he called on the entire country
to join hands with Ho Chi Minh City and adjacent provinces to combat the
pandemic. Ministries, agencies and the localities were required to build their own detailed plans to meet the ultimate goal of
ensuring people’s health and lives./.