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On the afternoon of February 9, the Steering Committee for the Prevention of COVID-19 in Ho Chi Minh City met online with departments, districts and districts on the status of the epidemic in the city. The meeting was attended by the deputy director of the Nguyen Truong Son School of Health, head of the special permanent group of the Ministry of Health in Ho Chi Minh City.
Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Son said that this morning the Task Force had a meeting with city departments and branches to discuss plans to coordinate and support the epidemic. During the meeting, he assessed that the outbreak at Tan Son Nhat airport was a new outbreak. Since the 1979 case, many other cases have been discovered.
“What surprised us a lot was that F1 exposures were negative but F2 was positive (15 cases). This shows that evolution is not like normal logic, ”Son said.
In assessing the situation, Mr. Son also said that the 1979 case was not the first case in the outbreak. “We cannot confirm the origin of this outbreak, but we continue to clarify,” added Son.
The Deputy Minister of Health said that the Office for the Prevention and Control of the COVID-19 epidemic in Ho Chi Minh City asked the Pasteur Institute to speed up the analysis of the genetic sequence of the cases to clarify the strain of the virus in the city. strains in Van Don, Chi Linh and strains mutated in England, South Africa, Brazil or not.
The Steering Committee for the prevention of COVID-19 in Ho Chi Minh City has an online meeting with departments and districts on the status of the epidemic in the city. Photo: HL
In addition, Tan Son Nhat airport needs to strengthen the testing, monitoring and testing of family members of the coordination staff, loading and unloading of goods at the airport by the antibody test method.
According to Mr. Son, by this method, the medical force can identify the case of COVID-19 but it has recovered, thus expanding the tracing in the community to find the origin of the outbreak.
“We have instructed all Ministry of Health units located in the area and surrounding areas to be ready to assist Ho Chi Minh City in tracking, monitoring and testing. All samples when sent to the unit must be done immediately and always, there is no longer the concept of waiting, ”said Mr. Son.
Before this statement, the Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, Nguyen Van Nen, said that the COVID-19 epidemic in the city is happening in a very complicated way, the risk of infection in the community is very high, because the source of infection has not been determined.
The most unexpected thing that happened was that the F1 exposure cases were negative but F2 was positive that Vice Minister Nguyen Truong Son mentioned, Mr. Nguyen Van So wanted him to help the city detect this, see if there are any problems in the process. follow-up process, let the EC take the lead and do the rest.
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(PLO) – “Many F2 exposures, after being tested, go back to F0. If community control is not strict, it will be difficult to control translation in the future, ”said Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong.
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