Indonesian health authorities said on December 28 that they are conducting contact tracing after the Southeast Asian country detected the first case of the fast-spreading Omicron variant of COVID-19 in the community.
The Cambodian Government has decided to extend its intensified COVID-19 prevention and control campaign by a week, while the Lao Government has ordered increasing contact tracing for prompt treatment.
Secretary of the Da Nang Party Committee Nguyen Van Quang has ordered the suspension of sport activities and sea bathing, and closure of hair salons in the central city from 12pm on July 15 due to COVID-19.
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Ho Chi Minh City is forecast to keep growing on the coming days, but with the serious implementation of the Prime Minister’s Directive 16/CT-TTg and adjustments to the contact tracing, sample collection, and testing strategies, the city will manage to contain the outbreak.
Vietnam has proven that it has strong and durable institutions that could protect the country’s public health through future pandemics, according to an article recently published on the website brookings.edu of the US-based Brookings Institution.
Vietnam’s clear and drastic measures in COVID-19-related quarantine and contact tracing have help it overcome the third wave of outbreaks in less than two months, according to an article by German journalist Johannes Giesler, which was recently published on the news site Yahoo Nachrichten.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Centre for Disease Control (HCDC) said that returnees from localities with COVID-19 patients in Hai Phong city and Binh Duong province must quarantine at home for 14 days.
The temporary hospital for COVID-19 treatment No 2 in northern Hai Duong province was dissolved on March 28, after the outbreak in the biggest hotspot of the latest coronavirus resurgence had been brought under control.
Phu Quoc island city in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang have placed 26 people closely contacting the new COVID-19 patients who illegally entered Vietnam, said a local official.
The Ministry of Health announced two more domestically-transmitted COVID-19 infections in the northern province of Hai Duong in the past 12 hours as of 6:00 am on March 12.
The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai will remove social distancing order at the stroke of February 25 in four localities reporting no new COVID-19 cases in the last 14 days, according to its announcement issued on on February 24.
Vietnam was ranked second for successfully handling the COVID-19 pandemic, and its contact tracing was so good it barely had to lock down, says a headline on the US-based Business Insider.
The health sector has identified three changes in the strategy for COVID-19 prevention and control, relating to the combination of samples for testing, home quarantine for children under five years of age, and the transportation of goods stuck in pandemic-hit areas.
Authorities in Hanoi have ordered the temporary closure of online game and internet shops from February 2 early morning, as part of the efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the city, according to Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung.
Thousands of volunteers are working online to help quickly verify information on F1, F2, and F3 cases linked to COVID-19 infections, heard a meeting in Hanoi on February 1 reviewing the work of the COVID-19 quick information response team.
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