Deputy PM urges Mekong Delta localities to raise guard against COVID-19

All of returnees from pandemic-hit areas have to make
health declarations truthfully to facilitate the testing and quarantine work, Dam, who is
also head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control,
said at an online meeting with representatives from 12 cities and provinces in
the Mekong Delta region.

Each locality should review their medical equipment, the
capacity of concentrated quarantine and treatment facilities, and personnel for
COVID-19 testing, the Deputy PM said.

He asked the cities and provinces to step up screen
tests in hospitals, promptly activate monitoring systems to get information
about people displaying COVID-19 symptoms, and improve testing capacity.

The localities were also requested to re-organise treatment
systems for patients, who, Dam said, should be classified into three
groups – patients with no or mild symptoms, patients with symptoms,
and patients in critical conditions.

At the meeting, the participating officials shared
difficulties in pandemic prevention and control in their localities, mainly relating
to testing capacity.

Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen said the
localities are expected to record more COVID-19 cases in the time ahead, and
urged them to better assign tasks, and seriously observe quarantine and
lockdown regulations./.