Large garment enterprise in Vinh City stops production for 3 days to control the outbreak

Information from Vinh City leaders said,Minh Anh - Kim Lien Garment Joint Stock Companyin Hung Dong commune, Bac Vinh Industrial Park, decided to temporarily suspend production for 3 days, from January 11 to 13, 2022 to focus on controlling the complicated epidemic.

It is known that by the morning of January 12, the entire company had recorded 88 F0, mainly the Company's workers and nearly 400 F1. During the 3 days of production suspension, the company, together with the Vinh City government, will test all workers, a total of 3,200 people, at the same time screen, trace, and isolate high-risk cases, organize disinfection spraying, sterilize the entire factory, and arrange reasonable working departments in the new situation...

Previously, at the meeting between the Department of Health, Vinh City People's Committee and Minh Anh Garment Joint Stock Company on January 11, comrade Duong Dinh Chinh - Deputy Commander of the Provincial Center for Disease Prevention and Control, Director of the Department of Health assessed that the epidemic situation is quite complicated, especially the outbreaks at Minh Anh Garment Joint Stock Company (in Do Luong and Vinh City) with a very large number of F0, if there is no timely solution, there will be a potential outbreak.

Taking Covid-19 test samples in Vinh City. Photo: Quang An

Regarding Minh Anh - Kim Lien Garment Joint Stock Company, comrade Duong Dinh Chinh agreed with the company's plan to temporarily suspend operations for 3 days to continue investigating, tracing, disinfecting, and detoxifying related locations. Classify risk groups, high risk groups, and safe groups to resume production. Coordinate well with localities to monitor related F0s and F1s to thoroughly control the epidemic, not allowing it to spread widely.

On the morning of November 12, Nghe An continued to record 26 more cases of community Covid-19 infection, of which, notably, 5 cases were employees of Matrix Company - Bac Vinh Industrial Park.

Mr. Tran Quang Lam - Vice ChairmanVinh City People's Committeesaid: Among these new cases, there are some workers living in the same boarding house with workers of Minh Anh - Kim Lien Garment Joint Stock Company, so the source of infection cannot be ruled out. This is a teddy bear manufacturing company located in Bac Vinh Industrial Park, the second company in the Industrial Park to have patients infected with Covid-19. Currently, this company has also tested all workers, a total of 800 people, and is focusing on tracing and isolating infected and high-risk cases to both control the outbreak and stabilize production in the remaining departments...".