Specifically, Hanoi city requires the Department of Industry and Trade to regularly review and update the plan to ensure goods on the basis of forecasting, firmly grasping the epidemic situation, consumer demand and the ability to supply goods inside and outside the city; and to advise the municipal People's Committee to direct the departments, branches, and People's Committees of districts and towns to implement tasks to ensure adequate supply of essential goods to serve the people in the area.
At the same time, it is necessary to strengthen the connection of supply and demand, synthesize and provide information on sources of essential goods and seasonal agricultural products to distribution units, supermarkets, markets and food stores in the city to organise the exploitation and storage of goods for epidemic prevention and control.
The Department of Industry and Trade directs distribution businesses, supermarkets, and business units to strengthen measures to exploit and reserve essential goods, and to arrange adequate means and human resources to transport goods to retail points to serve the people's consumption needs; as well as to promote sales through e-commerce applications, online sales, phone sales, even 24 hour a day sales if necessary.
In addition, it is necessary to coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, functional forces, People's Committees of districts, towns to direct, guide and supervise the operation of essential stalls in wholesale markets and markets to meet the requirements on epidemic prevention and control; planning to manage the number of people entering and leaving the market.
The Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade is assigned to chair and coordinate with the Department of Industry and Trade of provinces, cities, businesses and units to make a list of transportation needs, departure and arrival points of means of transport supplying essential goods in Hanoi, and send the list to the Department of Transport and the City Police to facilitate and prioritise the inspection, control and distribution of traffic flow to promptly transport and supply goods in Hanoi.
It is necessary to coordinate with functional forces to strengthen inspection and control of the market against counterfeiting, imitation goods, poor quality, speculation, hoarding goods, pushing prices.
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development was assigned to review the production areas to convert and expand them to produce vegetables, tubers and aquatic products in a short time, in order to proactively source essential goods to the capital's consumers.
The Department of Health is assigned to direct the health centres of districts, towns to perform tests in the shortest time for drivers transporting goods to the Hanoi market. Priority should be given to vaccination for those who are drivers transporting goods for distribution systems under the direction of the city.
* The Department of Tourism of Ho Chi Minh City cooperated with the municipal Department of Health on July 25 to mobilise hotels and accommodation units to serve as paid centralised quarantine facilities to meet the growing demand.
The city has currently more than 72 hotels, providing a total of 5,564 rooms, that have been approved as paid medical isolation areas.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Toursim has also coordinated with the People’s Committee of Thu Duc City and districts across the city to call on 395 hotels offering 13,426 rooms to register as quarantine sites for F1 cases, including 117 units with 5,328 rooms that received approval and met the safety and isolation requirements to be put into operation.
In addition, the tourism department announced that customers could find hotels with Traveloka mobile travel booking app, providing an extensive price comparison since August 1.
* Vietnam confirmed an additional 2,764 COVID-19 cases, including two imported, in the past 12 hours to 6am on July 27, raising the national total to 109,111, according to the Ministry of Health.
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Ho Chi Minh City still accounted for most of the new infections with 1,849 cases.
The remainders included 149 in Dong Thap, 144 in Tay Ninh, 119 in Dong Nai, 87 in Binh Duong, 73 in Vinh Long, 63 in Tien Giang, 60 in Ben Tre, 52 in Ba Ria – Vung Tau, 43 in An Giang, 37 in Phu Yen, 26 in Khanh Hoa, 17 in Can Tho, 11 each in Dak Lak and Kien Giang, seven in Hau Giang, four each in Hanoi and Binh Dinh, three in Tra Vinh, two in Thua Thien-Hue and one in Ca Mau.
The number of cases reported since the fourth coronavirus wave hit the country in late April reached 105,338, of whom 18,570 have been given the all-clear. The total number of recoveries now stands at 21,344.
A total of 126 patients with severe COVID-19 are being treated in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). Fifteen are in critical conditions and receiving ECMO support.
