Health workers collect samples for COVID-19 testing in Ward 15 of Go Vap district, HCM City (Photo: VNA) This is partof the content of a document from the committee recently sent toleaders of religious organisations, asking for enhanced application of anti-COVID-19measures.
The move followed a COVID-19 outbreak that started from a religious group named “Hoi thanhtruyen giao Phuc Hung” (Revival Ekklesia Mission) in Ho Chi Minh City andthen spread to many localities.
Therefore, the Government committee requested leaders of religious organisations tocontinue communication activities to encourage their dignitaries, followers, and establishmentsto seriously adhere to the instructions on COVID-19 prevention and control.
They wereasked to suspend all religious activities at places of worship and the sitesregistered for concentrated religious practices and put up warning signs at thoseareas. Religious establishments and sites of religious practices must coordinatewith authorities in contact tracing if any of them records suspected cases.
The Governmentcommittee required religious organisations to update COVID-19 information from official sources on their websites and other means of communications, and disseminate the information to their facilities in remote areas and pandemic hotbeds.
It also recommendedreligious organisations call on their subsidiaries, dignitaries, and followers joinhands with authorities in the pandemic fight and contribute to the COVID-19 vaccinefund.
The COVID-19 cluster at the place of worship of the RevivalEkklesia Mission group in Ward 3 of Go Vap district, HCM City, was found on late May26.
As of 3pm onJune 4, there had been 310 infection cases (F0), 5,377 F1s (people directlymeeting the confirmed patients), and over 320,000 F2s (those with close contactwith F1s) related to this cluster.
Apart from 20of the 22 district-level localities in HCM City, the outbreak from this hotbedhas spread to 15 provinces and cities, with eight reporting infection cases andseven others recording F1s or F2s.
The numbersof F0s, F1s, and F2s related to this cluster are forecast to keep increasing on the coming days./.
They wereasked to suspend all religious activities at places of worship and the sitesregistered for concentrated religious practices and put up warning signs at thoseareas. Religious establishments and sites of religious practices must coordinatewith authorities in contact tracing if any of them records suspected cases.
The Governmentcommittee required religious organisations to update COVID-19 information from official sources on their websites and other means of communications, and disseminate the information to their facilities in remote areas and pandemic hotbeds.
It also recommendedreligious organisations call on their subsidiaries, dignitaries, and followers joinhands with authorities in the pandemic fight and contribute to the COVID-19 vaccinefund.
The COVID-19 cluster at the place of worship of the RevivalEkklesia Mission group in Ward 3 of Go Vap district, HCM City, was found on late May26.
As of 3pm onJune 4, there had been 310 infection cases (F0), 5,377 F1s (people directlymeeting the confirmed patients), and over 320,000 F2s (those with close contactwith F1s) related to this cluster.
Apart from 20of the 22 district-level localities in HCM City, the outbreak from this hotbedhas spread to 15 provinces and cities, with eight reporting infection cases andseven others recording F1s or F2s.
The numbersof F0s, F1s, and F2s related to this cluster are forecast to keep increasing on the coming days./.
VNA
