On the afternoon of January 28, the Ho Chi Minh City Health Department held an urgent online meeting on epidemic prevention with leaders of 24 district health centers in response to the epidemic situation in Hai Duong and Quang Ninh. During the meeting, to proactively control the epidemic in the city, the Health Department directed the Health Sector to implement measures for epidemic prevention in the immediate term.
Through contact tracing, the city identified 6 cases that had close contact with patient 1553 in District 5, District 6, District 10, and Tan Phu District. All have been quarantined and tested.
At the urgent meeting of the Ho Chi Minh City Health Department on the same afternoon, Director Nguyen Tan Binh affirmed that the city’s health sector would maintain the highest alert level for Covid-19. Rapid response teams and testing operations have all shifted to a state of readiness.
Measures for tracing contacts of confirmed cases, suspected cases, and individuals coming from epidemic areas must be implemented correctly and with specific guidelines. At the same time, enhance supervision and management of quarantine areas and implement Covid-19 prevention measures at treatment facilities.
In addition, it is necessary to monitor cases with respiratory symptoms such as fever, cough, and shortness of breath to promptly detect potential cases of the disease that may infiltrate from the community into hospitals.
The Health Department advises city residents to remain calm, access official information from the Health Sector to understand and act according to the recommendations of the Health Sector, and strictly follow the disease prevention measures outlined in the 5K message.
As previously reported, after receiving information about a woman from Hai Duong testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 upon entering Osaka (Japan), on January 27, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long immediately dispatched a task force from the Ministry of Health to Hai Duong for assistance.
As of noon on January 28, Vietnam had detected an additional 82 Covid-19 cases in the community in Hai Duong and Quang Ninh. Among them, 72 cases are in Hai Duong, and 10 cases are in Quang Ninh. All these new patients are listed as F1 contacts related to two confirmed cases announced this morning, BN1552 and BN1553.
Patient 1552 is a worker at POYUN Co., Ltd. (Hai Duong), and patient 1553 is an airport employee (Quang Ninh).