Particularly, it is required to closely grasp the epidemic happenings to proactively take preventive measures. It is essential to avoid panic in the community and prevent bad impact on the investment climate and international cooperation of the province.

Medical staff checks Nguyen Van Anh’s health, an overseas student returning from RoK isolated at the concentrated area in the provincial Educational Center of National Defence and Security.

The people’s committee of the districts and city, the provincial Industrial Zones Authority, Departments of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Public Security, Education and Training, Culture, Sport and Tourism were requested to promptly make the lists of South Korean people working and staying in Bac Giang, in which specifying those immigrated below 14 days and those transited through or came from the affected localities in RoK, Bac Giang’s people returning from RoK and delegations planning to go to RoK.

It is necessary to provide warnings to Korean and Japanese enterprises about active preventive measures. The families should contact to guide their relatives who are living in RoK about preventive measures and provide the local steering committee for disease prevention and control with their relatives’ information. 

When their relatives return Vietnam, they should arrange 1 person to pick up at the airport. In case they return from the epidemic-hit areas, the local steering committee must be informed to collaborate with medical agencies to pick them up to the province’s concentrated medical isolation areas.

Tourist groups, labour export companies and individuals who plan to go to RoK should take careful consideration for proper flight schedule to ensure safety.

Korean people arriving the province, Vietnamese people returning from RoK and those who contacted with people returning from RoK in the concentrated isolation areas are imposed quarantine at home, offices and enterprises.

Concentrated quarantine is imposed on people who returned from RoK’s virus-hit areas or passed through the affected areas in RoK (Daegu city and Gyeongsang province) within 14 days.

Those who have symptoms of fever, cough or breathing difficulties must be isolated in the provincial General Hospital or the district’s Medical Center.

The steering committee of the districts and city and medical monitoring groups in the industrial parks shall guide people coming from Japan, Singapore, Italy and other affected countries about health supervision. They must inform the medical bases or call the hotline of the steering committee for disease prevention and control at all levels for medical checkup when having fever, cough and breathing difficulties.

Bac Giang DoFA provides Chinese quick learning handbooks in combating Covid-19

(BGO)- The Department of Foreign Affairs (DoFA) in Bac Giang province has published 60 Chinese quick learning handbooks related to Covid-19 prevention for the officers and soldiers on missions in the foreigners’ isolated area. 

Bac Giang focuses on controlling and monitoring health condition of people coming from Covid-19 affected area

(BGO) – As of February 12, Bac Giang province has 15 Covid-19 suspected cases (new strain of coronavirus as called by the World Health Organization since February 12), in which 14 people tested negative to the virus and 1 case is waiting for the test result who is monitored at the provincial General Hospital with stable condition.

Bac Giang publishes bilingual leaflet to communicate about nCoV epidemic to foreigners

(BGO) – The Department of Foreign Affairs (DoFA) in Bac Giang province has recently released the bilingual leaflets to communicate about the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus in 4 languages of Chinese, English, Korean and Japanese.

Tourism sites and areas in Bac Giang province sprayed with disinfectant to prevent nCoV epidemic

(BGO) – Currently, most of the relic sites and spiritual tourism areas in the northern province of Bac Giang have been sprayed with disinfectant to prevent the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

Bac Giang prepares conditions to isolate suspected cases to control nCoV caused epidemic

(BGO) – The Vice Chairman of Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee (PPC) Le Anh Duong and Vice Head of the provincial Steering Committee's Standing Board for prevention and control of the acute respiratory epidemic (the Steering Committee) caused by the novel coronavirus (nCoV) on February 9 paid a field trip to inspect the preparation measures to isolate the cases who return from the nCoV affected area and closely contact with the infected patient.

Tung Lam