Ho Chi Minh City sets up a serum bank - the collection and frozen storage of serum samples - to supply samples for testing and infectious disease control.
Yesterday afternoon, the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) said that there is an increase in the number of hospitalizations due to Covid-19 in the city, more than 6 times higher than the average of the previous 4 weeks.
Ho Chi Minh City is likely to be at risk of recurrent Covid-19 outbreaks due to increased people's travel demand during Tet holidays ( the Lunar New Year).
The issuance of the government’s resolution No. 63/NQ-CP on the key tasks and solutions to promote economic growth, disbursement of public investment, and sustainable exports in the last months of 2021 has shown the Government's determination in achieving the dual goals of fighting against the epidemic and socio-economic development.
To Thi Bich Chau, Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City, yesterday presented the Standing Committee of the city Party Committee’s gifts to encourage officials and civil servants participating in the battle of the Covid-19 epidemic in Phu Nhuan District’s wards 2 and 15.
At this morning’s meeting, Chairwoman of the HCMC People's Council Nguyen Thi Le announced Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has phoned her asking her to send his congratulations to the people and entire machinery of state in outlying district Cu Chi, which has been successful in controling the Covid-19 epidemic.
Dr. Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Deputy Director of the Department of Health, said that if the city reported more infection cases, the mortality of severely and critically ill Covid-19 patients will increase affecting the quality of treatment. Therefore, the country’s commercial hub strives to reduce fresh infections to reduce mortality rate only by vaccination and strict social distancing.
According to businesses especially foreign-invested facilities, there should be a more flexible mechanism for import of the Covid-19 vaccines. They should not be considered a special product which only a few designated enterprises can import.
Secretary of the HCMC People’s Committee Nguyen Van Nen asked districts' local authorities and functional units to provide information about Covid-19 vaccines to help people become confident in their decision to get vaccinated. People can decide for themselves on Covid-19 vaccine.
Thu Duc City and other districts in Ho Chi Minh City until now have run mobile vaccination campaigns for the hard-to-reach and high-risk communities citywide. This is expected to speed up the process for the goal of herd immunity here.
The Government on June 19 issued a resolution on the purchase of 30 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine ordered by the Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC).
The Ministry of Health reported that 139 new Covid-19 cases had been detected in the six hours from 6 a.m. to 12 p.m. June 20, including 130 local infections and 9 imported.
Following the news of 53 health care workers at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases being infected with Covid-19 after full vaccination, hospital former director Professor Tran Tinh Hien said that no vaccine remained 100 percent effective against severe diseases.
The Standing Committee of the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control and experts said that the coronavirus pandemic will be basically put under control in June, but several cases will still be recorded in the community.
Minister of Heath Nguyen Thanh Long on May 28 received VND185 billion (US$8.01 million) in donations from businesses for Vietnam’s COVID-19 vaccine fund.