Ho Chi Minh City continues to apply Directive 16 with strong measures until August 1st
Accordingly, Ho Chi Minh City will continue to implement Directive No. 16 until August 1 with stronger measures to control and repel the disease in the direction of the blockade and curb the spread of the epidemic; maintain, expand the safe zone and control the spread of high-risk areas to reduce new infections and focus on treating critically ill patients, reducing the mortality rate.
Increase some more powerful measures
According to Mr. Duong Anh Duc, the city will increase the number of stronger measures by the spirit of Directive 12 of the City Party Committee on July 22.
Accordingly, Directive 12 of the City Party Committee requires narrowing the number of groups of subjects operating during the city-wide quarantine. Suspending production and business activities and activities of construction sites, construction works and traffic is not urgent.
Banks and securities can operate at the level of maintaining a capacity to provide necessary services on time, especially for branches or transaction offices, which can operate alternately, arrange staff to work directly Next shift, strictly follow the distance.
Tightening business operations: only essential service businesses in health, pharmaceuticals, food and food services, providing meals for hospitals, isolation areas, and treatment areas; electricity, water, gas, postal, telecommunications, public sanitation, transportation of essential goods; State treasury, funeral services and several other essential services regulated by competent authorities may operate according to service requirements and ensure safety.
Other manufacturing enterprises are only allowed to operate on the condition that safety is ensured; resolutely stop immediately and severely punish cases of activities that do not meet the requirements of epidemic prevention and control.
State agencies organize alternate working days or sessions of the day at their offices; exemplary, strictly obeying Directive No. 16/CT-TTg, showing the way in case of urgent business.
Do not allow cross-contamination in the blockade area
According to Mr. Duong Anh Duc, the city will tighten the management of the blockade area with the primary goal of preventing cross-contamination in the blockade area. Implement appropriate zoning of blockade areas meeting epidemiological criteria; daily monitoring the number of newly arising F0 in each blockade area, thereby promptly detecting the risk of cross-infection and taking immediate solutions.
Periodically assess the situation of the blockade area to promptly remove the partial blockade, thereby minimizing the psychological pressure on people and the strength of the blockade management forces.
Regarding the improvement of treatment capacity, the city continues to improve the treatment capacity, equipment system and human resources to ensure always master in all situations; in which focus on mobilizing retired medical staff, doctors and private health system to participate in epidemic prevention and control.
Actively review and ensure human resources; the list and number of equipment, consumables, medical oxygen, personal protective equipment, essential drugs; equipment, test kits and other necessary conditions to ensure readiness to respond when the epidemic situation increases.
Well perform the monitoring of F0s at the 1st and 2nd floors according to the treatment system and promptly handle them as soon as the patient shows signs of serious change; in which the focus is on guiding patients to monitor their health together with medical staff, helping to reduce the burden on the health system.
Working with the Ministry of Health to mobilize the best human resources and equipment for the 5th-floor hospitals; augment the high-functioning ventilators for this hospital to treat critically ill patients. Familiarly, coordinating with the Ministry of Health to establish a warehouse of equipment and field consumables in Ho Chi Minh City.
Continue to accelerate the progress of caring for the poor and vulnerable. Continue to require enterprises to implement a reasonable plan to reduce production scale, ensure a safe distance in the factory, and strictly imply safety self-assessment.
Ensuring enterprises in production and business activities in safe conditions for epidemic prevention and control, meeting the motto "3 on the spot" (on-site production - eating on the spot - resting on the spot). There are specific instructions for businesses who have difficulties and embarrassment in applying the model of both isolation and production.
Re-organizing the operation of traditional markets to ensure safety and prevention of epidemics, only being allowed to operate under a new model, with strict regulations and strict control, ensuring an open and airy space (can use the road surface as a place for a market), have a barrier between buyers and sellers, post prices and encourage sales in ready-made bags, strictly observe social distancing; only allow trading in food, foodstuffs and essential goods and reduce the scale to about 30%.
Business households operate alternately on even and odd days to minimize the number of people interacting. Strengthen the application of information technology to manage markets and small business.
References as Tuoi Tre Online