Chairman of HCM City Nguyen Thanh Phong speaks at the meeting on June 29
If results comes back positive, authorities have one hour to lock down areas. They must carry out contact tracing tasks and collect samples for tests as quickly as possible. Monitoring inside quarantine centres and hospitals must be tightened to prevent cross-infection. Phong urged all agencies to speed up their work so that the Covid-19 test results will come back within 12 hours.
The authorities will keep test people in Thu Duc City, especially in areas with positive patients like District 8, Tan Phu, Hoc Mon and Binh Chanh districts. Firms are encouraged to buy quick tests for their employees once a week.
One hundred inspection teams have been set up to provide guidance to 22 firms on how to operate while staying in quarantine in several industrial zones and processing zones with 25,000 employees. Wholesale and wet markets that fail to meet Covid-19 prevention requirements will be closed.
Quarantine centres will be expanded or set up in case more F1 people are detected. However, the city will not use schools as quarantine centres. Hotels will be used as paid quarantine centres. F1 people can self-isolate at home if their living conditions meet the requirements.
HCM City has prepared plans and reviewed the oxygen and medical equipment in case there are 10,000 positive cases. The city authorities aim to vaccinate two-thirds of the population by the end of 2021.
Groups of more than three people in public places are banned.
