Covid-19 response scenario in Ho Chi Minh City | News

How is the plan?

According to the general plan, the Department of Health builds 4 cases 1, 2, 3, 4, each with different responses. Each area, each district will have different levels of application.

The Department of Health and HCDC inspected the Eastin Grand Hotel, Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City Photo: TRAN DINH CARD

Answer Youth On April 4, the representative of the Popular Committee of District 6 said that he had prepared the response scenarios, upon detecting an infection in the community, the Health Center immediately informed the District Popular Committee and investigated to take samples for testing . During tracing, if the positive F1 becomes F0, the F2 cases will be converted to F1 for processing.

If the number of infections in the community increases, the District 6 Medical Center will assess the situation, the risk of the case, the cases of close contact and the long distance contact to discuss with the Control Center. HCMC disease (HCDC). After consulting HCDC, the District 6 People’s Committee will decide whether to isolate the area or isolate the residential group.

“The social gap will be taken into account when the health force evaluates the risk of epidemics at a high level, the Popular Committee of District 6 asks the Popular Committee of the City to make a decision on social distance,” the representative of the Committee People’s District 6. speak.

According to Mr. Bui The Hai, vice chairman of the District 10 People’s Committee, just after the first epidemic occurred in February 2020, District 10 planned to respond to the epidemic occurring in the area. Following the occurrence of more cases of contagion outside the community, the district added a series of situations to adapt to the new situation.

Specifically, when there is a case of contagion, the district health center will organize to transfer the infected person to the places assigned by the Health Department depending on each specific case (Cu Chi, Can Gio, Hospital Hospital Trópico. ..). The Popular Committee of the neighborhood will zonify and organize posts to manage access to residential areas, commercial establishments that need to be isolated; organization of source distribution, tracking to identify F1, F2 cases for sampling and quarantine in the community.

Given the situation of this epidemic, there are cases in which F2 is a student from the province that is in the area, so District 10 instructs the unit to add a request to capture the situation. is implementing isolation to support difficult cases in a timely manner. At the same time, students living in a dormitory are required to self-isolate, but the accommodation is too cramped and the quarantine requirement is not guaranteed to move to a backup location.

“Depending on specific developments, if there are 3 or more cases of infection in a residential community, the district will consult the Department of Health to propose to the People’s Committee of the City to implement social distance with the gap level. in each neighborhood, residential group, area of ​​the house or route, ”said Mr. Hai

Experts Say Effective Prevention Scenarios for People

Dr. Truong Huu Khanh, Head of the Department of Infections and Neurology at Children’s Hospital 1 (Ho Chi Minh City), said that the epidemic happened that nobody wanted but it happened. Dr. Khanh assessed that the situation in Ho Chi Minh City is not as “tense” as in July in Da Nang, because the city knows that F0 and the time that F0 exists in the environment is not long and the path is clear. to meet F1 and also Has not yet entered the hospital. And TP has tested 861 F1 cases and cut F1.

According to Dr. Khanh, if you confidently isolate unprofessional people, there will be negligence and loopholes. Dr. Khanh pointed out three gaps in the isolation: if you don’t divide the negative and positive areas on the isolator, your journey will be extended; how to advise and supervise when sent home in isolation when it is less than 14 days; the person is in quarantine and a relative who does not comply. Now to fill these 3 holes, the insulation must be highly professional.

For people, Dr. Khanh emphasized in the first place, people learn what risk factors they belong to, follow the guidance of the health sector and continue to work. If it is F1, you must be honest, try to remember where to go and if there is any danger you must notify your friends and health authorities. If a group of people, in a company belonging to other Fs, will solve it for themselves, F3 stays at home waiting to try F2, F2 is at home waiting for F1.

For people living in Ho Chi Minh City to go to the provinces, according to Dr. Khanh, the provinces are now interested in the people from the city to the provinces, so how do the provinces ask to comply, especially the returning students? mask, hand washing and exposure limit pending F1 negative. The waiting period should last 3-4 weeks, and hopefully there will be no new shifts.

For hospitals, “watch” people who “drop in” from outside the community for testing. Hospitals care and must examine, pay attention to chronic patients. Dr. Khanh also thinks that it is advisable to open voluntary testing in the community, but it is necessary to consult and issue a good procedure for each positive or negative patient. Because there are people who do not know what they belong to, where they have gone, so they voluntarily give them peace of mind because there are private units.

Voluntary testing at this time also reduces the sampling concentration in some places, as well as people’s waiting and anxiety. If people test positive, they must be isolated, but if they test negative, they must protect themselves, not where they want to go because the environment has viruses, I don’t think it is safe to stay outside.

According to HCDC, people need to update information from official sources, avoid accessing too much inaccurate information that easily confuses us, causing public confusion.

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Doctor Hung requires that hotels, in addition to serving isolated people, strengthen communication, mobilize isolated people to voluntarily comply with the provisions of the quarantine area. together.