Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control Vu Duc Dam has asked
localities to do their best to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic from spreading in factories,
especially at (IPs).
During an online meeting with permanent members of COVID-19 prevention
and control steering committees and leaders of Bac Ninh and Bac Giang provinces
and Da Nang city on May 12, Dam hailed their efforts in responding swiftly and
responsibly to the pandemic.
speaks at the event (Photo: VNA) The Deputy PM noted that Vietnam is now home to 369 IPs and nearly 30
border gates and processing zones with 3.8 million workers, and around 700 industrial
clusters with 600,000 workers. Since early on, the National Steering Committee
on COVID-19 Prevention and Control has required strict enforcement of pandemic
prevention in those areas, he said, pointing out that if IPs are hit by the
pandemic, production and supply chains would be disrupted, putting negative
effects on the national economy.
He stressed that all localities nationwide must quickly direct
enterprises, factories, and IPs to periodically update their anti-pandemic work
on the COVID-19 safe living map at http://antoancovid.vn.
At the meeting (Photo: VNA) The health ministry has been assigned to step up the licensing of new
testing technologies and to issue specific guidelines to localities on how to
use testing methods in different cases and in areas with varying degrees of
risk.
Cities and provinces nationwide must popularise prevention and control
regulations to enterprises with many workers, particularly those at IPs. Businesses
must also actively join in periodic virus screening to ensure safe production.
The Deputy PM ordered quarantine facilities to be kept ready to prevent
cross-infection in poor conditions in quarantine. He also directed the Minister
of Industry and Trade to work closely with the Ministry of Health to hold a
nationwide training conference to ensure safe industrial production, especially
at IPs./.
Source: VietnamPlus
