HCM City aims to control COVID-19 prior to July 10
Ho Chi Minh City has planned to conduct COVID-19 testing for one million aggregate samples per day, with a hope to control the pandemic before July 10.
Collecting samples for COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – HoChi Minh City has planned to conduct COVID-19 testing for one million aggregatesamples per day, with a hope to control the pandemic before July 10.
An urgent action programme to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic fromnow until July 10 has been announced by the municipal authorities.
Apart from increasing thetesting, every effort will be exerted to trace, zone off and stamp out thepandemic while attention will be paid to strictly controlling quarantine sites to minimise cross-infection risks.
Spraying disinfectant at a street in Go Vap district (Photo: VNA)
Large-scale sample collectionand narrow-scale lockdown will be conducted in areas where COVID-19 infections wereconfirmed. Test results in these areas are expected to be confirmed within 12hours.
The local authorities havealso prepared a response scenario for treatment of 10,000infections. The city’s health sector has prepared oxygen reserves, medicalsupplies and equipment serving the work.
Regarding the vaccination campaign against COVID-19, the municipal authoritiesare urgently working with partners and negotiating with vaccine manufacturersto accelerate the purchase and import of vaccines, so that the city can receivethe first vaccine batch at the end of the third quarter.
The city has set to give vaccinations to two-thirds of its population in late2021.
As of July 1 morning, HCM City had recorded 3,998 COVID-19 infections./.
Ho Chi Minh City needs nearly 686 trillion VND (29.8 billion USD) for its mid-term investment plan for the 2021-25 period, according to the municipal People’s Council.
Additional 197 new COVID-19 infections, including nine imported ones, were confirmed in the last six hours to 6pm on June 27, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered authorities of Ho Chi Minh City and surrounding localities in the southern key economic region to take the initiative to realise the dual targets in a flexible method as COVID-19 situations remain complicated.
Ho Chi Minh City aims to take samples from five million people by July 5 for COVID-19 screening as more and more people are found to be infected thanks to screening at hospitals, according to its People’s Committee.
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Despite the ongoing global circulation and unpredictable developments of SARS-CoV-2, the World Health Organisation (WHO) hasn’t issued new warnings about COVID-19, said the Ministry of Health.
Collecting samples for COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA) 
Spraying disinfectant at a street in Go Vap district (Photo: VNA) 
