testing (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – has signed a dispatch requiring ministries, sectors and localities to intensify the implementation of COVID-19
prevention and control measures.
Dispatch
No. 1068/CD-TTg issued on August 5 noted that despite a number of initial
positive results in , the pandemic is developing
complicatedly and may prolong, threatening the health and lives of people and greatly
harming socio-economic development.
The
PM requested the heads of the People’s Committees of centrally-run cities and
provinces, ministries and sectors to enhance the supervision over the
implementation of pandemic prevention and control measures, while working harder to carry out particular solutions.
To
prevent the spreading of the pandemic, the PM requested the high-speed COVID-19
testing in locked-down and high risk areas as well as for people showing
typical symptoms, thus discovering and quarantining F0s.
In
order to minimise COVID-19-related deaths, it is crucial to make highest preparations for
COVID-19 treatment and ensuring medical supplies and equipment such as oxygen and respirators, while mobilising human recourses and medical supplies from all
sectors, including the private sector in COVID-19 treatment, he asked.
At
the same time, he stressed the need to speed up the progress of vaccination by
setting up more fixed and mobile vaccination stations and preparing vaccine
storage.
In
the dispatch, the PM also directed ministries, sectors and localities to quickly implement
support policies for COVID-19-hit people and businesses, and propose more suitable support policies./.
Source: VietnamPlus
