Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the working session with representatives of Can Tho’s health sector (Photo: VNA)Can Tho (VNA) – The
health sector of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho must focus on implementing drastic
and s to effectively prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic, said
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
Addressing a working session with representatives of the city’s health sector
on May 22, PM Chinh applauded Can Tho for its initial successes in responding
to COVID-19 outbreaks.
However, he noted that Can Tho must not be heedless and off guard
because it is the centre of the Mekong Delta region and the gateway connecting
Can Tho international airport with other localities, and is close to Cambodia
where the COVID-19 pandemic is developing very complicatedly and unpredictably.
Can Tho’s must play a central role in the Mekong Delta region with
nearly 20 million people, and promote
creativity to effectively prevent and control the pandemic, he said.
Attention should be paid to preventing
in industrial zones, aiming to early detect, rapidly quarantine and
testing, the PM said, stressing the need for the sector to prepare equipment, medical supplies and testing tools to serve
treatment and testing.
The health sector was also required to
simultaneously promote communication work in order to raise public awareness of
the danger of and the importance of preventing the pandemic.
According to Nguyen Phuoc Ton, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of
Health, the city’s health sector has activated the entire rapid response system to
strictly control the situation.
As of May 22, Can Tho recorded 34 people
infected with COVID-19, who were imported cases and quarantined upon their arrival. Twenty-eight of them were
given the all-clear from coronavirus.
The city’s health sector has completed the
first vaccination round for 7,759 people and is about to receive 13,000 COVID-19 vaccine
doses for the second phase of vaccination from the Ministry of Health./.
Source: VietnamPlus
