Ho Chi Minh City expanded to collect samples for urgent testing from high-risk groups in the community



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HCMC Expands to Take Samples for Urgent Testing of High Risk Groups in the Community - Photo 1.

Information released by the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) on the morning of February 12.

Accordingly, to ensure that passengers arriving and departing from Tan Son Nhat Airport, tSince February 11, VIAGS Company employees (company where the patient 1979 and co-workers with COVID-19 worked) samples will also be taken for testing prior to entering work as the airport passenger service team.

As of February 11, 87 VIAGS cargo handling employees were moved to central isolation.

City also tUrgently implement the expansion of the sampling for surveillance and monitoring of high-risk groups in the community from February 11 at night (Tet 30) and ending before February 14 (the 3rd day of Tet).

On the afternoon of February 11, a total of 2,485 samples were taken, of which 2,146 were taken from shelters and worker accommodation in 24 districts, 339 samples from the main bus stations in the city. Test results are pending.

To Ttracking, community detection, As of the morning of February 12, the city has drawn An additional 46 cases of close contact with COVID-19 (F1) were added, bringing the total number of F1 cases to 1,449 cases, all isolated and analyzed concentrates, of which 1,403 were negative. 46 on hold.

The city also expanded the traceability of other contacts and F2, raising the total number of exposures to 2,560 cases, sampled, of which 1,580 were negative, 980 were updating their results.

From February 6 to 10, Ho Chi Minh City registered 33 cases of COVID-19 in the community, of which 8 cases were in the same working group for loading, unloading, disposing and monitoring luggage and cargo at the airport in They are so. Nhat (under the VIAGS company).

The remaining 25 cases are family members, friends … of Tan Son Nhat airport staff who were exposed to COVID-19 (i.e. F1). These 25 participants were F2 but were positive for COVID-19 while all F1 test results were negative.

In the face of complicated developments in COVID-19, to ensure that passengers arriving and departing from Tan Son Nhat Airport, Ho Chi Minh City, people working at the airport should take samples every day, only if the results of the test were negative (the test is valid one day at a time) they were allowed to go to work.

The city also requires people to limit crowds, strictly adhere to 5K as recommended by the Ministry of Health …

HCMC expands to take samples for urgent testing of high-risk groups in the community - Photo 2.

Graphics: NGOC THANH

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