At an area for collecting samples for COVID-19 testing in Da Nang (Photo: VNA)Da
Nang (VNA) – Secretary of the Party Committee of Nguyen Van
Quang has ordered the local authorities to well prepare plans for an increase
in infections in the central
city.
Speaking at an online meeting hosted by the municipal Steering Committee for COVID-19
Prevention and Control on May 9, Quang highly valued localities, agencies,
departments and sectors in quickly implementing timely and effective measures
to prevent and control the pandemic.
He suggested units and localities establish more concentrated quarantine areas
to meet the demand of .
Quang also stressed the need to strictly handle violations related COVID-19
prevention regulations, prepare medical supplies, and set up inter-sectorial
delegations to remind and inspect the disease prevention work in local
businesses.
For his part, Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Ho Ky Minh said
Da Nang must pay more attention to accelerating contact tracing, quarantine and testing work, as well as preparing medical supplies to
serve disease prevention.
According to the municipal Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and
Control, Da Nang confirmed 31 more cases tested positive for coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 once in the past 24
hours to 14:00 on May 9. All of them were put
under quarantine.
The city has so far recorded 34 areas related to . Lockdown
has been imposed in 24 areas in the city.
Vietnam reported 80 new COVID-19 cases on May 10 morning, including 78 domestic infections and two imported.
The new infections took to the total number of coronavirus cases in the country
to 3,412, including 411 locally-transmitted infections detected since the
latest outbreak hit the country on April 27./.
Source: VietnamPlus
