Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh inspects Covid-19 prevention and control work in Ho Chi Minh City
On the morning of June 26, in Ho Chi Minh City - the largest economic center and also the most complicated epidemic area in the country, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his delegation visited, worked with, and encouraged a number of quarantine locations, vaccine research and production facilities, and businesses that are striving to achieve the dual goal of both fighting the epidemic and producing and doing business.
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| Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh inspects the quarantine area at the dormitory of Ho Chi Minh City National University (Thu Duc city). Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac |
The Prime Minister and his delegation inspected the quarantine area at the dormitory of Ho Chi Minh City National University (Thu Duc City); worked with Nanogen Company at the Ho Chi Minh City Hi-Tech Park - the unit researching and producing the Nanocovax vaccine against Covid-19; visited Nissei Electric Vietnam Company - a Japanese enterprise specializing in the production of electric cables... at Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone.
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| The Prime Minister recalled the lessons learned in Bac Giang when many cross-infections occurred in quarantine areas. Although they were controlled and did not spread to the community, they still put pressure on the treatment system. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac |
Inspecting the centralized quarantine area at the dormitory of Ho Chi Minh City National University (Thu Duc City), Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh especially noted that rapid testing and applying technology are the keys to ensuring effective quarantine work.
Currently, Ho Chi Minh City has prepared 30,000 quarantine places, not including quarantine areas in each district. Of which, Ho Chi Minh City National University alone has 19,200 quarantine places, so far it has received about 7,000 people, about 1,800 people have completed quarantine, and about 5,000 people are still in quarantine.
Inspecting the facilities and quarantine organization here, the Prime Minister recalled the lessons learned in Bac Giang when many cross-infections occurred in the quarantine area. Although they were controlled and did not spread to the community, they still put pressure on the treatment system. This situation must be absolutely avoided.
The Prime Minister noted a series of measures such as increasing security forces, mobilizing both police and military if necessary. Along with that, ensuring necessary conditions for material and spiritual life in possible conditions such as providing wifi so that people in quarantine feel comfortable, not frustrated, leading to escape from quarantine... Reducing the number of people in each quarantine room to the lowest level, especially rooms must have separate toilets to avoid infection.
"We must strictly manage the quarantine area and not allow any loopholes," the Prime Minister emphasized.
Along with that, the Prime Minister requested to promote rapid testing measures, and assigned Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long and the Ministry of Transport to immediately transfer rapid test kits to Ho Chi Minh City, including products from Medicon Company in Hanoi that the Prime Minister visited and worked with on June 24. The price of this company's rapid test products is only 1/3 compared to imported products but the quality is equivalent and most importantly, we can proactively control the supply, with a capacity of about 120,000 products per day and can increase.
The Prime Minister also asked Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung to support Ho Chi Minh City in promoting the application of technology in quarantine areas.
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| The Prime Minister visited Nissei Electric Vietnam Company, a Japanese enterprise in Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac |
At Nissei, the Prime Minister praised the company's efforts to restore revenue to pre-pandemic levels after a decline of about 10% in 2020, now reaching about 80 million USD per year. The company has applied many solutions to prevent and combat the epidemic such as dividing production shifts and reducing the number of people gathered.
The Prime Minister suggested that, in special conditions, special solutions are needed, hoping that companies in particular and FDI enterprises in general share the difficulties in the context of the pandemic, together with the Government and local authorities join hands to fight the pandemic to ensure the health and lives of people, while ensuring the lives of workers so that when the situation returns to normal, the production and business chains will not be disrupted.
The Prime Minister said that Japan has supported Vietnam with 2 million doses of vaccine, of which 800,000 doses have been reserved for Ho Chi Minh City. The Vietnamese government is making every effort to have the most and fastest vaccines to prevent and combat the Covid-19 pandemic and will continue to prioritize vaccines for frontline forces, including workers in industrial parks and export processing zones.
The Vietnamese government has identified “fighting the epidemic as fighting the enemy”, and the Vietnamese people have a tradition of “increasing production while fighting the enemy”. The Prime Minister suggested that in case the epidemic becomes more complicated, companies can study ways to both isolate workers and laborers on site and maintain production and business. Business leaders support the Prime Minister’s view.
“Join hands to fight the epidemic, produce and do business, and ensure workers’ lives. Fight the epidemic to produce, produce to fight the epidemic”, that is the wish of the Government and the Prime Minister for businesses. If there are any problems, businesses should frankly send their recommendations to authorities at all levels in a constructive spirit for consideration and resolution.