Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at the meeting (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The National Steering
Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control has expressed its determination to
prevent a new COVID-19 outbreak as winter nears.
During a meeting on November 2 chaired by Deputy Prime
Minister and committee head Vu Duc Dam, participants stressed that wearing
masks is an important and simple way to prevent the spread of the pandemic and should
be done not only in major urban areas but in all wards, communes and townships,
in line with the Prime Minister’s Directive.
Hanoi and HCM City authorities have urged
people to consider wearing a mask in public places as compulsory and they will seriously
deal with violations, especially at medical and lodging facilities, shopping centres,
and public transport means.
Participants also discussed measures to effectively realise the Government’s
policy of resuming commercial flights with several countries to welcome back
foreign experts and investors to Vietnam, contributing to fulfilling the dual goal of fighting the pandemic and promoting economic development.
As of November 2, Vietnam had gone through 61 days without any community
transmission of COVID-19. Pandemic hotbeds have been basically brought under
control.
The Health Ministry has introduced a map of safe living with
COVID-19, at www.antoancovid.vn, to control any outbreak
nationwide. A total of 1,530 hospitals, 145 quarantine facilities, over 6,500
hotels of three-star standard or higher, and more than 53,800 schools have been
updated on the map.
It has also stepped up vaccine research and production and the
use of advanced technologies in the fight against COVID-19.
The ministry has established six groups to oversee SARS-CoV-2
testing in Hanoi on October 30, in Nha Trang on November 3, and in HCM City on
November 6./.
Source: VietnamPlus
