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Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long speaks at the meeting – Photo: TIEN LONG
The above information was exchanged by the Minister of Health, Nguyen Thanh Long, at the meeting between the Ministry of Health and the People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City. Appreciate the management, prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic in Ho Chi Minh City.
Mr. Long especially appreciated the work of tracking, testing and preventing the spread of COVID-19 in the Ho Chi Minh City community in relation to the recent flight attendant patient.
northThe head of the Ministry of Health once again repeated and stated: “During the meetings, the Prime Minister and the Government concluded that Ho Chi Minh City is not an epidemic, so it is not necessary for some localities to take samples to test people from Ho Chi Minh City to other provinces and cities ”. .
Also in the speech, Mr. Long hoped that the People’s Committee of the City would continue to uphold the sense of urgency and decency in the prevention of epidemics. In which, tracing, isolation, testing lessons should be evaluated … Suggested that the city increase The speed of the test, according to him, is of great importance in the prevention and control of epidemic diseases.
” We strongly hope that the city will continue to promote the prevention of the COVID-19 epidemic to ensure the implementation of the dual goals set by the Prime Minister and the Government. To do this, the city’s health sector must really set a very high goal, ” Long said.
The information confirms that “Ho Chi Minh City is not an epidemic” given by the Minister of Health to provide clear information and also to avoid misunderstandings in some provinces and cities when there are decisions to take samples for analysis and isolation. Gather people from a number places with epidemiological factors in Ho Chi Minh City and back to that province, city, also to make people from other provinces and cities feel safer when interacting with people from Ho Chi Minh City.
Before that, at the meeting Standing from the Government on the prevention of the COVID-19 epidemic (afternoon 1-12), Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stated: “Ho Chi Minh City is not considered an outbreak, but a place of infection from the outside. “
