HCM City is calling recovered COVID-19 patients to assist its COVID-19 response. Illustrative photo. (Source: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – , the
country’s largest COVID-19 epicentre, targets to fully vaccinate all residents aged
above 18 against COVID-19 and use “COVID-19 green cards” to enable eligible
people to resume economic activities and social interactions in certain sectors
depending on their level of virus control effectiveness.
The moves form part of a draft plan to fight COVID-19
beyond September 15 submitted to the municipal People’s Committee by the local Department of Health.
Based on the city’s data on COVID-19 caseloads, hospitalization
and fatality, as well as intervention solutions, the southern economic hub is likely to put the coronavirus
situation under control in accordance with the Minister of Health’s standards
after mid-September, the Department of Health said in the proposal.
Medical workers deliver medicine packages to COVID-19 patients in Commune 8, District 11, HCM City. (Photo: VNA)Its core strategy is to inoculate all adults aged above
18 with two jabs of COVID-19 vaccines and start vaccinating at-risk children,
for example, those with underlying illness and obesity, if vaccines are
available.
HCM City will also step by step relax social distancing
rules based on results of risk assessment, epidemiological surveillance data
and the healthcare system’s capacity, in order to restore production, supply of essential
services and circulation of goods.
Local authorities intend to classify business sectors and
units based on their level of COVID-19 exposure risk and allow production and
economic activities, and social interactions to gradually resume accordingly.
The Department of Health will make sure all
home-quarantined COVID-19 patients will be provided with medical monitoring by grassroots health units and receive COVID-19 medicine packages. It
plans to promptly discover and offer first aid to these patients when their
conditions turn worse; and prevent unexpected deaths at home.
Caring fore critically-ill COVID-19 patients. (Photo: VNA)Additionally, it will adopt exclusive mechanism and
solutions to mobilise all possible community-based resources to care for
self-quarantined patients, while restoring the normal operation of the local health system to serve patients with non-COVID-19 and COVID-19 diseases.
The department is calling recovered COVID-19 patients to assist the city’s COVID-19 response. As of September 8, a total
of 1,543 patients have reportedly registered to join./.
Source: VietnamPlus
