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HCM City extends lockdown for another month, aims to reduce daily cases in early September to 2,000
Speaking at a meeting to receive goods and necessities for people affected by the pandemic in HCM City, Mai said the pandemic could become more severe if the city relaxes its vigilance.
In order to do so, people's awareness is the most important factor, he emphasised.
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Traffic started to pick up in HCM City on Friday when social distancing order has not expired. |
Mai said the city has gone 80 days since the fourth wave of infections broke out with the Delta mutation. The period of social distancing, especially the five weeks of tightening Government’s Directive 16, were "unprecedentedly difficult" days for the political system and people.
The city has made great efforts to control outbreaks and infection chains, removing hundreds of locked down areas, promoting control of red zones, as well as expanding green zones. The health sector also cured more than 70,000 people and administered vaccines for over 4.5 million people.
With the spirit of making all efforts to take care of people, the city has tried its best to reduce difficulties, while ensuring the supply of goods and issuing support packages.
Mãi said the pandemic in HCM City has been partially controlled but is still very complicated; the number of infections is still high; the treatment system is overloaded and its operation is not synchronous. The process of receiving and treating Covid-19 cases is sometimes not efficient and the death rate has not decreased.
He said the Government’s requirement to control the pandemic by September 15 is challenging, but it was the common desire of the people. Leaders of the city affirmed maximum priority towards pandemic prevention, while putting the health and life of the people first and foremost.
To achieve this goal, Mai said HCM City will focus on implementing four main tasks.
The first is to thoroughly apply social distancing, limiting the source of infection, each person and each household must strictly comply with the requirements of social distancing and the 5K message.
Secondly, the city takes good care of people's lives in the coming days of social distancing, ensuring people’s needs for goods and necessities are met.
The city will mobilise all possible resources to deploy welfare packages for the poor, elderly people who live alone, freelance workers who lost their jobs, to ensure the basic life of people until they return to a “new normal” life.
Third, the city will focus on effective treatment strategies, reducing mortality. The city is expanding the number of hospitals and treatment facilities to meet the needs of emergency, oxygen support, medical care and deploying F0 home treatment.
Fourth, the city is speeding up vaccination to achieve herd immunity. However Mai emphasised that even when the vaccination rate is high, implementing the 5K message is still a requirement.
The need to impose social distancing for one more month was also noted earlier on Saturday by Secretary of HCM Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen at a conference about assessment of pandemic prevention and control results after two weeks of implementing Directive 12, issued by the HCM City Party Committee's Standing Commission on strengthening several measures to implement the Prime Minister’s Directive 16 on the prevention of the Covid-19 pandemic in HCM City.
The city has implemented the Prime Minister’s Directive 16 on social distancing rules since July 9 and started to impose even more restrictions from July 24 to contain spread of the virus.
On July 23, the Municipal People's Committee decided to extend the application of social distancing measures until August 1.
On August 1, the city issued a decision on imposing city-wide social distancing measures under the Prime Minister’s Directive 16 for an additional 14 days from 0:00 on August 2.
Source: VNS
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