Deputy PM Dam asks for preventing pandemic from spreading to safe areas
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked authorities and relevant forces to work hard to prevent COVID-19 in lockdown areas in the northern provinces of Bac Ninh and Bac Giang from spreading to safe areas or adjacent localities.
Workers return to work after testing negative to SARS-CoV-2 (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam hasasked authorities and relevant forces to work hard to prevent COVID-19 inlockdown areas in the northern provinces of Bac Ninh and Bac Giang fromspreading to safe areas or adjacent localities.
During an online meeting with leaders of the two provinceson May 30, Dam, who is also head of the National Steering Committee on COVID-19Prevention and Control, noted that they must focus on not only fighting thepandemic in industrial parks (IPs) and clusters but also restoring productionoutside IPs.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at the meeting (Photo: VNA)
As Ho Chi Minh City is now applying social distancingmeasures, Dam asked the Transport Ministry to not arrange for flights carryingVietnamese citizens from abroad land in the city for 14 days since the date themeasures took effect.
Similarly, the capital city of Hanoi will not receiveflights from abroad for a week.
Deputy PM Le Van Thanh at the working session with Bac Giang officials (Photo: VNA)
During a working session with Bac Giang provincialauthorities on May 30, Deputy PM Le Van Thanh asked the province to quicklysubmit reports on the local production and business situation, COVID-19prevention and control work and related proposals to the Government.
He instructed the province to intensify pandemic countermeasuresin IPs and boost the consumption of farm produce.
Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Le Anh Duong askedfor support in both material and human resources to meet demand in testing anddata entry work. He also appealed for help in tackling difficulties in sellinglychee in the southern market./.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked ministries and agencies to tackle difficulties for the northern province of Bac Giang to fight COVID-19 pandemic in the spirit of not saying "lack of money, lack of human resources and lack of policies and mechanisms".
Vietnam recorded an additional 52 new domestically-transmitted COVID-19 cases in the past 12 hours to 6am on May 30, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).
Vietnam must apply the principle of "5K plus vaccine and technology" in preventing and controlling COVID-19 to ensure that the pandemic is curbed early and remotely, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
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The resolution on such mechanisms aims to serve as a legal basis for opportunely dealing with difficulties and hindrances caused by legal regulations in important, priority, and urgent areas that require immediate settlement so as to unlock resources, facilitate economic development, and turn legislation into a competitive edge.
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The Party chief underscored the need for the press to innovate relentlessly, evolve to keep pace with the country's development, transform into a truly professional, humanistic, and modern sector that serves the cause of the Party, the State, and the people on the path to national construction and development.
Workers return to work after testing negative to SARS-CoV-2 (Photo: VNA) 
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at the meeting (Photo: VNA) 
Deputy PM Le Van Thanh at the working session with Bac Giang officials (Photo: VNA) 
