Some COVID-19 prevention and control documents removed

A man is vaccinated against the COVID-19. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has signed Decision No. 1269/QD-TTg on removing some documents on COVID-19
pandemic prevention and control that were issued by the National Steering
Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control and the Prime Minister.

One of the abolished documents is the Prime Minister’s Decision No.
447/QD-TTg dated April 1, 2020 announcing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Other documents include 20 decisions, 13 official dispatches and four official telegrams issued by the National
Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, and eight directives and three
decisions of the Prime Minister.

The first COVID-19 cases in the world were recorded in late December
2019 in Wuhan, China. In Vietnam, the first case was confirmed on January 23, 2020.

With the participation of the entire political system, the
Party, army and people implemented drastic, synchronous and timely measures to
prevent and control the pandemic that is an unprecedented, complex, and
unpredictable global pandemic.

Vietnam had gradually prevented and effectively controlled it. The
country’s achievements in the fight against the pandemic have made an
important contribution and created favourable conditions for socio-economic
recovery and prosperity in most fields.

On October 20, 2023, Vietnam officially moved COVID-19 from
group A to group B infectious disease.

Earlier, on January 29, 2020, the Ministry of Health classified COVID-19 as a Group A infectious disease which comprises
particularly dangerous infectious diseases that can spread very fast and on a
large scale and have a high mortality rate or unclear causes. Meanwhile, Group
B covers the infectious diseases that can spread fast and cause deaths./.