According to HBA, they are workers from 1,500 factories at 18 local industrial parks and export processing zones. They are the city’s key labour force which helped earn an average annual export value of USD27 billion.
Workers at a garment company in HCM City
Since the city’s Covid-19 outbreak, around 70,000 workers at 700 companies have had to stay at work.
The third jab of Covid-19 vaccine would help to ensure local industrial parks, export processing zones and high-tech parks could continue their operations.
To date, many companies, particularly foreign-invested firms in HCM City have established quarantine facilities.
Linh Trung 2 Export Processing Zone has built a 1,500-square metre quarantine site with 250 beds. The zone is facing the rise of Covid-19 cases every day although most of them have been fully vaccinated.
The association added that most companies at industrial parks and export processing zones are willing to establish quarantine sites. However, it is important that they need medical support from the city’s Health Department.
HCM City is home to around 1.5 million workers who are working at 30 industrial parks and complexes and factories.
Currently, 2,800 workers who have tested positive for Covid-19 are being treated.