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Chung made the statement during a meeting of the city’s steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control on April 15, noting that the city is currently in the decisive week of the COVID-19 battle.
He said that, as detecting infections is the most important task, testing is of utmost importance to identifying infected people early and preventing the coronavirus from spreading. Therefore, all suspected cases must have their samples taken for diagnosis as appropriate.
This week will decide whether COVID-19 will break out on a large scale in Hanoi, so the forces must stay on guard around the clock to receive information from people, collect samples for testing and take response measures if there are any new patients discovered, he added.
Chung asked for communications activities to be increased further so that locals will better comply with the Prime Minister’s Directive 16 on urgent measures against COVID-19, stressing that only when people well abide to this directive can the pandemic be eradicated.
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Chairman of the Hanoi Municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung (standing) speaks at the meeting. (Photo: NDO/Nguyen Trang)
* On the same day, Ho Chi Minh City authorities also held the same event, discussing the continuous implementation of the PM’s Directive 16 in the city. Politburo member and Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan suggested that the city strictly implement the directive without neglect. He requested the Department of Information and Communications to coordinate with the network operators to deploy software to perform crowd monitoring. He also asked local authorities to soon implement a set of operation criteria suitable to the specific characteristics of each unit for implementation in May.
* On April 15, President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Tran Thanh Man received some donations, including VND100 million from the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers’ Union.
The same day, the VFF Central Committee also received contributions from many agencies, organisations and businesses. So far, the body has received nearly VND1.6 trillion (US$68 million) in donations to the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Man said the VFF Central Committee is committed to distributing the received money in an open and transparent manner, thus joining hands with the State in driving back the epidemic.
* On April 15, the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission held a meeting to discuss the results of the COVID-19 prevention and control in the army and the impact of the epidemic on all army fields. Politburo member and Minister of National Defence General Ngo Xuan Lich chaired the conference.
Amid the complex development of the epidemic, General Lich asked agencies and units under the army to continue focusing on fulfilling their tasks in fighting the epidemic as assigned to the army by the Government and the PM.
* On April 16 morning, a teenage girl from the H’Mong ethnic minority group was confirmed positive for SARS-CoV-2, taking the total number of cases in Vietnam to 268, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
The 16-year-old girl lives in a remote hamlet near the border with China in Dong Van District, in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.
On April 7, the girl displayed symptoms of fever, cough and breathing difficulties, and was quarantined at the Dong Van District General Hospital. She tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, which causes the COVID-19 disease.
Of the 268 COVID-19 cases in Vietnam, 171 have made full recovery, while the others are being treated at hospitals at different levels.
Twenty-three patients have tested negative for the virus once and 10 have tested negative twice.
