As of October 24, there are 9 districts in Ho Chi Minh City reaching level 1 - green zone, 12 localities reaching level 2 - yellow zone and one level 3 - orange zone.
The information was announced by the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City this afternoon according to the general results of the city's Department of Health, based on the Government's Resolution 128 and the interim assessment guidance of the Ministry of Health in Decision 4800.
Specifically, level 1 includes: Thu Duc, Go Vap, Tan Binh, 1, 7, 8, 10, Can Gio, Cu Chi.
Level 2 includes districts: 3, 4, 5, 6, 11, 12, Phu Nhuan, Binh Thanh, Tan Phu, Hoc Mon, Nha Be, Binh Chanh.
Binh Tan is the only locality at risk of epidemics at level 3.
In addition, Ho Chi Minh City also assessed the epidemic level at the ward, commune and town level. Accordingly, 199/312 localities reached level 1; 96/312 localities reached level 2 and 17/312 localities reached level 3.
The Ho Chi Minh City government requests departments and localities based on the announced epidemic level to implement administrative measures to adapt safely, flexibly, and effectively control Covid-19 in the field and in the area. to be in charge of.
People in Ho Chi Minh City ride sports cars on the first day of the "new normal", October 1. Photo: Quynh Tran
For the city level, the epidemic risk is at level 2 - the yellow zone. In which, with criterion 1 - the number of new cases in the community per 100,000 people in a week is 73.5; reach level 3 (50-<150). Specifically, from October 15 to October 21, there were 6,635 cases; The previous week (October 8-14) was 6,815 cases. The population of the city as of October 20 is 9,145 million people.
For criterion 2 - vaccine coverage, as of October 21, the proportion of people over 18 years old in Ho Chi Minh City receiving at least one dose of vaccine is more than 99%; and the rate of people over 65 years old who received 2 doses of the vaccine is nearly 92%. This level is higher than the guidance of the Ministry of Health that 70% of people over 18 years old get at least one injection and over 80% of people in this age group get 2 injections.
With the third criterion - ensuring the collection and treatment capacity of medical examination and treatment facilities according to lines, the city's Department of Health said that Ho Chi Minh City has a plan to set up a collection and treatment facility and ensure number of intensive care and emergency beds (ICUs) at medical examination and treatment facilities under provinces and cities (including private healthcare) ready to respond to the epidemic situation at level 4.
In addition, districts have plans to set up mobile medical stations, groups to take care of people infected with Covid-19 in the community and plan to provide medical oxygen to health stations of communes, wards and townships to respond when an epidemic occurs according to the guidance of the Ministry of Health.
Previously, on October 22, Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Chairman Phan Van Mai said that after the city announced the epidemic level of 22 districts, each locality would base it on to reopen services. In particular, in the "green zone" locality, restaurants will be able to reopen in the form of on-site dining and a number of other services.
Resolution 128 on temporary regulations for safe, flexible adaptation and effective control of Covid-19 was issued by the Government on October 11. Accordingly, 4 epidemic levels, including: level 1 (low risk - new normal), green; grade 2 (medium risk), yellow; grade 3 (high risk), orange; level 4 (very high risk), red.
According to the professional guidance of the Ministry of Health, provinces and cities of level 1 (green zones) are allowed to hold indoor and outdoor events with no limit on the number of people. The fields of operation include: transportation by road, waterway, and maritime; production, business and service establishments; restaurants, eateries, traditional markets; agencies and offices; religious, belief and worship establishments; hotels, motels, resorts, tourist attractions; performing arts, culture, physical training, sports...
Level 2 (yellow zone) restricts events with large gatherings of people indoors, outdoors or with conditions. Localities base on practice to determine the number of participants. Public passenger transport is operated, according to the instructions of the Ministry of Transport.
Service establishments with high risk of infection such as discos, karaoke, massage, bars, internet, video games, hairdressing, beauty salons, etc. must stop or limit. The locality will decide whether other risk services are operated. Provincial-level People's Committees regulate the operating conditions of street vendors, street ticket vendors...
Direct education and training activities are still organized under the guidance of the Ministry of Education and Training. The set of regulations on time, number of students...
Provincial-level People's Committees shall decide on the number of people participating in activities at religious, belief and worship establishments. Museums, exhibitions, libraries, cinemas, venues for cultural, physical training and sports performances have limited activities; reduced capacity, number of attendees.
According to Vnexpress.