PM asks Binh Duong to quickly conduct COVID-19 testing for residents

PM Chinh, who is Head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19
Prevention and Control, visited and had a working session with the province’s
leading officials to discuss pandemic prevention and control measures in the
locality.

Asking Binh Duong to consider each ward, commune and factory as a
fortress, and each person as a soldier in this combat, the Government leader requested
the province to strive to put the pandemic under control from September 15.

He also required the Ministry of Health to continue prioritizing vaccines
against COVID-19 for the province.

The provincial
People’s Committee proposed the Government and the Ministry of Health to
continue allocating vaccines to inject 2 million people living in high-risk
areas and providing drugs to treat COVID-19 patients.

Chairman of
the provincial People’s Committee Vo Van Minh pledged that Binh Duong will continue to give the top
priority to mobilising all resources for pandemic prevention and control, and
implement response plans for a scenario when the number of infections reaches 150,000.

He also
proposed the Ministry of Health and other localities to continue sending medical workers to assist the province as many medics of other
localities will finish their support in the coming time and the province is
also lacking medical personnel for 100 mobile medical stations.

is
home to 2.5 million people. It has to date recorded over 86,000 COVID-19 cases,
of whom 9,715 are being quarantined at home. As of August 26, the province had
administered 801,601 vaccine doses.

To date, over
2.1 million local people have received support with the total funding of 1.12
trillion VND (49 million USD). The provincial People’s Committee is proposing
the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance to consider a plan to support
local budget spending of 7.65 trillion VND./.