Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long on September 1 issued a directive on intensifying COVID-19 prevention and control measures, particularly during the upcoming National Day holiday (September 2 – 5), to minimise the risk of new outbreaks.
More than 16,000 experts and medical workers have been deployed by the Ministry of Health to Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Minister Nguyen Thanh Long.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, on August 27, led a delegation to inspect anti-pandemic work in the southern province of Binh Duong, one of the hotspots of COVID-19.
The first mobile medical station debuted at Ward 11, District 3 of Ho Chi Minh City on August 20, aiming to give health care services to COVID-19 patients at home, thus contributing to easing overload in concentrated treatment facilities and hospitals and minimising deaths.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long recommended pandemic hotspot Ho Chi Minh City strictly enforce social distancing measures and implement in-place social welfare packages at a meeting on care and treatment of COVID-19 patients and pandemic control with the local authorities on August 17.
A working delegation led by Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long inspected the reception and treatment of COVID-19 patients in intensive care units (ICUs) established by the Health Ministry in Ho Chi Minh City on August 16.
A delegation of the Ministry of Health led by Minister Nguyen Thanh Long arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on August 15 afternoon to work with the city's authorities in COVID-19 prevention and control.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long suggested localities adopt three-tiered COVID-19 treatment model to minimise fatality rate during a video teleconference (VTC) on August 13 morning.
Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long has asked for close collaboration between the medical sector and the army as vaccines will come in great quantity and need to be preserved in strict conditions in the near future.
The Centre for Disease Control (CDC) of the US and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have committed continued support for Vietnam in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
A hospital providing treatment for COVID-19 patients in Hanoi and northern localities will be set up at the Hanoi Medical University Hospital, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said on August 2.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has asked localities nationwide to devise scenarios for higher numbers of COVID-19 cases amid the fast spreading of Delta variant.
Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen and Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long inspected several hospitals treating COVID-19 patients in Ho Chi Minh City on August 1.
The top priority now is to reduce COVID-19 infections and fatalities, as the pandemic is expected to develop more complicatedly in Ho Chi Minh City and other southern localities in the coming days, with a rise in cases, especially critical ones.
Vietnam will accelerate COVID-19 testing to promptly discover infection cases in a bid to counter the pandemic which is spreading complicatedly in the south, said Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long.
The fourth wave of COVID-19 infections is witnessing the rapid spread of the Delta variant, at a speed twice or thrice as fast as that in the previous outbreaks, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has sent a letter to Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) to introduce T&t Group as the negotiator for the purchase of 40 million doses of Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine from Russia.
The third batch of COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccine, donated by Japan, arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on July 9 morning.
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