Illustrative photo (Source: ncov.moh.gov.vn)Hanoi (VNA) – The National Steering Committee for COVID-19
Prevention and Control has issued an urgent dispatch requesting cities and provinces
step up preventive measures at .
After going through 99 days without a community infection, since July 25,
hospitals in Vietnam, especially in the central city of Da Nang, have detected
a number of new , including among medical staff. The sources of
the transmissions are yet to be identified.
The steering committee requested that people’s committees, directors of
health departments, and heads of hospitals in cities and provinces nationwide quickly
bring their disease prevention and control measures up to speed.
Such measures include tightening the implementation of -related
regulations at health facilities, making lists of and monitoring medical staff
and patients linked to confirmed cases, and increasing screening work to
promptly detect infections.
The Department for Management of Medical Examinations and Treatment as
well as the inspection unit at the Health Ministry, and city and provincial
health departments have been tasked with ensuring the dispatch is followed.
These agencies have also been asked to propose the Health Ministry and the local
people’s committees consider temporary closure of high-risk hospitals./.
Source: VietnamPlus
