Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Localities are
authorised to decide on social distancing in accordance with the Prime Minister’s
directions and their real situations, ensuring pandemic prevention and control
and socio-economic development, has said.
In an interview with the Vietnam News
Agency (VNA), Long said the pandemic has been basically controlled in almost
all localities. However, the northern provinces of and
should work harder to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Noting that the COVID-19 situation in Bac
Giang is developing complicatedly as infections are mostly workers in
industrial parks, he lauded the province’s efforts in COVID-19 testing with
more than 200,000 samples tested.
Meanwhile, its neighbouring province of Bac
Ninh is facing a high risk, the minister said, expressing his hope that with
current effective measures, Bac Ninh will well control the situation soon.
Explaining the reason why a massive social
distancing has not been applied despite a rise in the number of
infections, Long said that the policy will be applied with reasonable scales
and methods to ensure the prevention of the pandemic from spreading and avoid
affecting socio-economic activities of the localities and people’s lives.
It is the responsibility of local
administrations to evaluate the pandemic situation in their localities to make a
proper decision, he stressed.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long (Photo: VNA)Underscoring the significance of COVID-19
testing, Long said that this time, testing on a large scale is being carried
out using more kinds of bio products for faster results.
The Ministry of Health encourages domestic
producers of biological products to continue increasing their production, while
boosting imports to ensure enough supply for testing, he said.
The minister affirmed that the approach to
and methods of conducting COVID-19 testing have been changed to improve the capacity
in the field for better pandemic prevention and control./.
Source: VietnamPlus
