Accordingly, the district directed its communes and townships to establish inspection teams to check up on observance of the Prime Minister’s Directive No 16/CT-TTg dated 31 March 2020, Conclusion No 104/TB-UBND dated 27 March 2020 of Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and Correspondence No 182/UBND-VP dated 27 March 2020 of the district People’s Committee while strictly sanctioning violations. 

Enhancing capacity of the medical staff to fight Covid-19 pandemic.

Especially, they requested communal people’s committee of the communes and townships to foster checking up on people’s wearing face masks in public and fining violations against the regulations.

The communal people’s committees continue tracking, making list and supervising quarantine of citizens returning from Bach Mai Hospital and Hanoi. Self-quarantine at home is also well performed as regulated.

The steering committee of the communes and townships was urged to persuade the households not to organize wedding parties. Funerals should be simple without big celebration where visitors are provided free face masks, medical monitoring and temperature check to combat Covid-19.

Besides, the district directed the medical agencies to take samples of 20 people with epidemiological factors including 12 people returning from Bach Mai Hospital and 8 people from China and other localities. All of them are tested negative for Covid-19.

As of 5 April 2020, 1,038 people in the district have been put in health supervision. 577 people have finished 14-day quarantine, 110 of whom were imposed concentrated isolation. Currently, 461 people are in quarantine including 15 people in concentrated isolation and 446 people self-quarantining at home. To date, no Covid-19 infected case has been confirmed in the district.

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Nguyen An