A local resident in Ba Ria-Vung Tau province gets vaccinated against COVID-19 (Photo: VNA)required southern localities to speed up COVID-19 vaccination in the next two,
three weeks while continuing to keep pandemic prevention measures in firm
place.
The Deputy PM, who is deputy head of the National Steering Committee
for Prevention and Control, made the instruction at an online
conference on October 26.
He assigned the Ministry of Education and Training to provide specific
guidelines to localities in re-opening schools in a flexible manner.
Local administrations reported that the biggest difficulty for
them at present is the management of people returning from pandemic-hit areas.
They said many cases of COVID-19 have been detected among those people.
The Health Ministry has guided localities in how to deal with those cases,
including quarantine, testing, health monitoring and measures to prevent the
spread of the virus.
While OVID-19 outbreaks have been basically contained across the
country and life in many areas have gradually returned to the new normal, the
number of community infections has shown signs of increasing in the past week.
Therefore, the warned of the possible resurgence of the
pandemic anytime and anywhere, particularly areas with low vaccine coverage and
large movement./.
Source: VietnamPlus
