Hanoi to conduct COVID-19 testing for 300,000 residents in high-risk areas

Taking samples for testing (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The of Hanoi will
conduct a large-scale testing campaign for about ,000 residents in high-risk
areas and those with a high risk of infection from August 10-17.

The municipal health sector is determined to optimise the
social distancing period, which will end on August 23, to detect infected
cases soon.

The target groups include freight forwarders, traders at
markets and supermarkets, public sanitation workers, taxi drivers, and workers
at industrial parks.

The Department planned to mobilise nearly 1,000 students of
the Medical College, of whom 300 partook in disease prevention in Bac
Ninh and Bac Giang provinces – the previous pandemic hotspots, to collect
samples.

The move was made as the pandemic situation remains
complicated in the city with many new cases having been recorded in the
community

Over the past three weeks, 634 cases out of 1,369 local
infections have been detected in the community including Tho Am hamlet cluster
in Thanh Tri district, Hoa Voi cluster in Quoc Oai district, as well as Phung
market cluster in Thach That district. 

As of early August 9, the capital city documented 1,792 infections
since the fourth wave of COVID-19 erupted on April 27. Of these, 1,075 cases
were detected in the community and 717 others in
quarantine sites or locked-down areas./.