Health ministry holds urgent meeting as over 300 workers in Bac Giang infected with COVID-19

Collecting samples for testing (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The northern province of Bac Giang, Vietnam’s largest COVID-19 hotspot
at present, had logged over 300 new infections as of the afternoon of May 25,
the (MoH)’s special taskforce in the province said.

All are workers staying
in a sealed off area.

The MoH has held an
urgent meeting with the special taskforce in Bac Giang and the province’s
Health Department.

The cases were
detected after an acceleration of testing conducted jointly by the MoH, local
authorities, and relevant agencies over the last three days at all industrial
parks (IPs), factories, and worker dormitories in the locality.

Associate Professor
Dr Tran Nhu Duong, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Hygiene and
Epidemiology, said that either factories in the IPs or the dormitories are the
source of the infections. Both are high-density areas and the virus spreads quickly
in the air.

The MoH has asked its
special taskforce to immediately block off all worker dormitories and ensure
strict compliance with quarantine regulations, especially in high-rise
buildings accommodating a large number of workers, and apply regulations at quarantine
sites in these areas.

Relevant agencies
must not allow people to leave these areas or their rooms, and must conduct
regular testing and disinfect workers’ residential areas./.