HCM City tightens pandemic prevention measures at ports

It
has called on the International Medical Quarantine Centre, HCM City Maritime
Port Administration and HCM City Border Guard Command to step up monitoring and
inspection at ports in the city.

They
have been asked to regularly report on the results of
and advise the department on allowing sailors to come ashore after a sufficient
period of isolation on their ships.

The
department instructed the HCM City Centre for Disease Control to provide
training in pandemic prevention to officers working at ports and disseminate
information related to pandemic prevention to all port employees.

It
said captains and sailors of foreign ships should be clearly informed about
Vietnamese regulations on pandemic prevention, and the former must be held
responsible if any of their crew is found violating them.

Violations
must be properly handled, it said.

Supervision
of people entering and leaving ports must be enhanced to ensure compliance with
pandemic prevention regulations, it said.

Prime
Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc recently ordered the tightening of borders to prevent
illegal entry by people.

He
also instructed the Ministry of National Defence and its health, public
security and foreign affairs counterparts to ensure everyone entering Vietnam is
quarantined. 

He
earlier called on all citizens to report illegal entrants and stay vigilant
against them since they could pose a risk of COVID infection.

People
entering the country illegally must be suitably penalised, he added./.