Collecting samples for testing of residents in a high-risk area in District 1, HCM City (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The has issued colour-coded risk
guidance for localities to implement depending on their individual COVID-19
situations.
The measures
are responses to different threat levels, with red being the highest level of
threat of infection, followed by orange (high risk), yellow (medium risk) and
green (new normal), on the epidemiologic map.
Code red is
activated when a cluster of COVID-19 cases is detected but no apparent source
of infection can be traced or the source is determined to be from an industrial
park, school or supermarket.
Code orange
is applied when there is at least one case without a known source of infection,
or the source is a crowded place listed as part of a code red cluster situation
or the commune is adjacent to code red localities.
Code yellow
is activated when a community case has a known source of infection, there are
direct contacts with confirmed cases in the community, or when a commune is
next to code orange localities, or when the risk of the virus is high from
illegal entrants or a large number of people at quarantine facilities.
At code
green, individuals must follow the 5K message Khau trang (facemask) – Khu khuan
(disinfection) – Khoang cach (distance) – Khong tu tap (no gathering) – Khai bao
y te (health declaration), businesses and organisations must follow health
ministry’s COVID-19 regulations, while local authorities would carry out
inspections and hand out punishments for offending individuals and
organisations (including suspension of organisations’ operations).
At code
yellow, other than measures prescribed for code green, contact tracing,
localised lockdown and quarantine will be carried out, while high-risk sites –
bars, karaoke, dance clubs, massage venues – will be closed, and restrictions
on large gatherings will be applied.
At code
orange, additional measures will be implemented, including halting large
gatherings of more than 30 people, no gathering of 10 people outside of the
workplace, keeping a distance of two metres in public; reducing traffic and
number of passengers on public transport vehicles; reducing people at workplace
and promoting working from home; school curriculum and schedule could be
adjusted, and health declarations would be required for all people in the
locality.
At code red,
social-distancing order will be carried out for at least 14 days; with the
closure of non-essential services and businesses, cultural and religious,
sports activities halted, people must keep a distance of two metres while
gathering larger than three people outside the workplace or schools or
hospitals are forbidden, while public transport is stopped completely.
Minister of
Health Nguyen Thanh Long said: “From our experience dealing with previous
outbreaks of the coronavirus and especially with the current fourth wave of
infections, the decree established a number of protocols such as lockdown
measures or more flexible approach to centralised quarantine requirement in
areas with a large population that might make it difficult to control the
spread or to manage overcrowded centralised .”./.
Source: VietnamPlus
