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Presiding over the preliminary meeting at the bridge point of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City was Mr. Truong Hoa Binh - permanent deputy prime minister, Mr. Nguyen Van Nen - Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phong - Chairman of the City People's Committee. HCM.

The number of community cases tends to decrease

At the meeting, Mr. Lam Dinh Thang - director of the Department of Information - Communication - said that from July 9 to now, the city had 9,736 infections, of which 1,794 cases were detected in the community, 7,942 cases in the remote quarantine, blockade. Although the number of cases is increasing day by day, the number of infections detected in the community and hospitals tends to decrease.

Currently, Binh Chanh District has the highest number, followed by Binh Tan district, district 8, Thu Duc city... The wards with the positive cases are Ward 13, District 10 (43 cases); Hiep Tan ward, Tan Phu district (41 cases); Ward 7, District 8 (41 cases)

 

Mr. Tran Quang Lam - director of the City Department of Transport - requested the City People's Committee to direct workers to restrict movement at construction sites; evaluate and may suspend construction works in the area, except for the remaining key programs in the short time to implement Directive 16. This will limit travel problems and ensure safety against epidemics.

In addition, Mr. Tran Quang Lam also suggested that the Ministry of Transport soon unify the circulation mechanism with the provinces to avoid congestion in the supply of goods.

Regarding the supply of goods, the Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong said that despite the recent efforts of the industry and trade industry, there is still a shortage of goods.

Mr. Phong asked to continue to mobilize resources to ensure the supply of goods to the people.

Mr. Phong also said that the Minister of Industry and Trade has commented on reopening the traditional market, but Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said that it is necessary to be careful in this reopening.

Currently, some localities have suggested organizing sales in large squares and roads instead of selling in traditional markets; grids, sales lines in the middle of the road, curbs, ensuring distance for people to buy goods.

Mr. Phong said that it is necessary to consider and calculate this plan specifically to serve people when the convenience store system is exceeding the supply capacity. Must be calculated on each specific area, not applicable to the whole city.

Soon, people will be able to buy vegetables and fruits through Tiki and Lazada
 

 

Mr. Bui Ta Hoang Vu - Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Industry and Trade - said that before implementing Directive 16, people in the city needed 7,000 tons of food per day. When 3 wholesale markets were temporarily closed, the supply was difficult, and the output decreased by 50%.

Currently, supermarkets and businesses have stabilized to increase their scale and supply capacity, but compared to the needs of the people, there is a shortage of about 1,000 tons of vegetables, tubers, fruits, fresh food...

From July 1, the city will mobilize other channels such as logistics and trade businesses. Compared to the number of goods before the implementation of Directive 16, there is still a certain shortage due to difficulties in circulation, traffic, increased costs, psychology of spreading rumors affecting people...

Yesterday (July 14) was a difficult day when people gathered to supermarkets and convenience stores to buy, after the city denied rumors, this number has decreased. The Department of Industry and Trade has coordinated with Thu Duc City and Hoc Mon District to find a solution to exploit the areas near the wholesale market to serve as transshipment locations for goods. Up to now, it has been put into operation for 3 days, receiving 100 tons of vegetables and fruits from localities. Second, promote the role of traders in wholesale markets, continue to do so through online delivery, delivery by phone to bring goods to Ho Chi Minh City.

Third, mobilize postal companies, fast delivery, logistics businesses... to support 1,000 additional selling points, officially launch tomorrow, July 16, using the unit's existing storage; mobilized 7 logistics companies operating independently of these points of sale with a set capacity of 1,000 tons.

The Department of Industry and Trade said that this unit works with districts to assess the reopening of traditional markets that are eligible for epidemic prevention.

"Currently, the district is difficult in terms of force, we will discuss and study the markets that will operate under the self-management model, minimize the number of stalls to implement 5K, guide small traders to sell goods at the same price. , do not trade for a long time, continue to think about applying information technology, gradually bring the market to be qualified to help people with middle and low income have conditions to access vegetables and fruits," said Vu to speak.

Leaders of the Department of Industry and Trade said that they have worked with units such as Tiki, Lazada, and Sendo to unify the sale of fruits and vegetables on the e-commerce platform, using their warehouses and these units have agreed.

At the same time, the market management force has also strengthened handling and sanctioning objects that collect goods, staple goods to resell for profit.
 

From now until the end of the implementation period of Directive 16, the city's agencies focus on carefully evaluating to make appropriate decisions. If we have 50,000 F0, can we do it like this forever? We have to calculate this strategy," Binh said. Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Van Nen - Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee - said that according to the assessment, epidemic prevention measures in the city were on the right track. However, before the complicated development of the Delta virus strain, epidemic prevention and control in many places was still confused and out of control.

According to Mr. Nen, 7 days of implementing social distancing according to Directive 16, the whole political system has made efforts to prevent and control the epidemic with the highest determination and fiercest determination. The work of prevention and control moves to a new state, with a clear assignment of forces. Testing, collection, isolation, treatment, community organization of COVID-19 have been uniform, focused and focused.

The city has implemented prevention and control with 5 pillars: testing; zoning; tracing isolated treatment; Vaccination is more effective. The anti-epidemic strategy has been improved, without mass testing, combining PCR testing and rapid testing.

According to Mr. Nen, over the past time, the work of isolation and treatment is really an unprecedented pressure, far beyond preparation. The city tried to fix it quickly. At the same time, the city has also promptly increased human resources, medical equipment ...

Up to now, the city has basically prevented the previous sources of infection, reducing the spread of pathogens in the community.

He said that in the coming time, the city needs to have a plan to prepare for the situation that neighboring localities simultaneously practice social distancing under Directive 16, making it more difficult to transport goods.
At the same time, it is necessary to study and quickly implement measures of the Ministry of Health in classification F0 and F1 for isolation and treatment at home.

Implementing Directive 16, people's lives and activities have been turned upside down; Many problems arise from the reality that confuses the epidemic prevention and control force, including the problem of providing necessities and transporting goods...

The Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee asked the functional forces to be flexible and skillful in all situations related to people's lives.

Mr. Should gave an example of a group of people who organized the trade and were stopped by the functional forces. However, people believe that they do charity to help the poor, not trade. In this case, the functional forces must thoroughly deal with and listen to the people; advocate for people to understand that the most important issue is to ensure social distancing; minimize the cases causing frustration among the people.

The Secretary of the City Party Committee said that people's safety is very important. People are under great pressure when social distancing, the city must promptly support difficult cases. The regulations need to be clear so that people are not confused when implementing, causing frustration.

Set up a support team and quickly reflect locally, reduce infections in the blockade area
 

Addressing the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phong - Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City - said that the city has spent 7 days implementing social distancing. Besides the achieved results, Mr. Phong said that it is necessary to frankly acknowledge the shortcomings to come up with appropriate solutions. That is, the testing work is still crowded, the results are still slow, the transfer of F0 to isolation and the establishment of testing teams in the districts is still slow. In the blockade areas, exchanges also take place. The Steering Committee for epidemic prevention and control is still confused, and the guidelines are constantly adjusted, making it difficult to implement. Districts and districts rigidly implement regulations, causing frustration in society. According to Phong, about 3 to 8% of infections in blockades and isolation areas are due to cross-infection. "According to data analysis, the largest cases of infection are in the blockade area. We must frankly admit that cross-infection has occurred. The number of infections must be gradually reduced in the blockade," Mr. Phong said.