Attendees include Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Mr. Vo Van Minh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Mr. Bui Thanh Nhan - Member of Standing Committee of Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of Di An City Party Committee; leaders of departments, sectors, People's Council, City People's Committee.
Record of 234 infected cases of Covid-19
Reporting to the Delegation, Mr. Nguyen Van Bay - Vice Chairman of the City People's Committee said that the Covid-19 epidemic in the city was developing very complicatedly, the number of cases was increasing, and new cases appeared at enterprises inside and outside the industrial park, hostels with crowded workers and in traditional markets.
Until July 10, 2021, Di An recorded 234 infected cases of Covid-19; the epidemic has occurred at 13 enterprises. The city has currently quarantined 1,701 F1 cases at quarantine zones; 9,248 F2 cases at home. From July 04, 2021, the city has practiced social distancing according to the Directive No.16; establish 24 checkpoints to control people travelling from Ho Chi Minh City and Dong Nai to the locality. 65,584 cases in 5/7 wards and nearly 30,000 employees and officials at all levels were tested. Medically zone 7/7 wards with 2,138 households, 40 hostels (4,409 rooms) with the total number of 20,937 people and 04 enterprises which have Covid-19 cases.
Functional forces control people from Dong Nai to Di An City at Tan Van quarantine checkpoint
At the same time, establish 996 Community Covid-19 Teams with 2,224 members, 47 tracing teams with 94 members and 120 testing teams.
Due to the increasingly complicated situation of the Covid-19 epidemic, Di An City proposes Binh Duong Province to consider reducing the scale of production, the number of workers in order to satisfy the distance, prevent the epidemic and arranging, assigning workers to stay at the companies to work at the social distancing period in Di An City.
Doctor Nguyen Hong Chuong - Director of the Department of Health said that the health sector highly appreciates the city's aggressive spirit of drastic epidemic prevention and control. Over the past time, Di An City has continuously zoned out to control and successfully stamp out many outbreaks with complicated epidemiological factors and many risks of spreading on a large scale. However, he also recommended that the city continue to raise its vigilance, not be negligent with the epidemic and urgently zone and trace for high-risk areas in the community and factories.
Reporting to the Delegation, Mr. Bui Minh Tri - Head of the Provincial Management Board of Industrial Parks said that the Management Board has actively coordinated with Di An City to carry out the tasks of preventing, controlling, zoning and stamping epidemics in factories and enterprises. Specifically, the Board together with functional sectors build Community Covid-19 Teams to propagate and monitor businesses and employees. In case there are recorded positive cases, suspected cases or related cases, the Board will coordinate with the locality to promptly locate the tracing area, conduct epidemiological investigation and conduct sampling for testing, coordinate the concentrated quarantine.
Organization of production in new conditions
Through the speech of the leaders of Di An city, members of the Delegation, Mr. Nguyen Van Loi highly appreciated the epidemic prevention and control work of Di An city. The whole city's political system has stepped in, promoted the spirit and responsibility of zoning and controlling the epidemic in time to prevent it from spreading. The Secretary suggested that Di An City continue to urgently implement measures to promptly zone, control and stamp out the epidemic under the motto "4 on the spot" (prevention, isolation, on-site treatment; on-site facilities, materials, equipment, drugs, and protective equipment as required; on-site funding; on-site human resources). Promote the effectiveness of Community Covid-19 teams in residential areas, hostels, and Covid-19 Safety Teams at businesses to promptly detect suspected cases. Covid-19 control checkpoints need to be arranged at reasonable locations, ensure human resources to perform their duties effectively, strictly control people entering and leaving the city. At the same time strictly implement Directive 16 of the Prime Minister in the area. Improve the capacity of isolation areas, treatment areas for Covid-19 patients, study to establish a field hospital to respond to the situation if F0 cases increase in the near future.
Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi is delivering a speech at the meeting
The provincial health sector considers and soon has measures to enhance the support of experts and equipment for the locality, especially accelerate and improve the PCR testing capacity to ensure that the locality has proper and timely measures. The Provincial Management Board of Industrial Parks needs to cooperate with Di An City more urgently and drastically to zone and repel the Covid-19 epidemic in businesses. Accordingly, industrial parks should have projects in coordination with functional sectors to check and request enterprises to ensure the regulations on epidemic prevention and control, production operation in the new conditions. Specifically, for businesses that are hot spots and at high risk of epidemics, it is necessary to have a plan to stop production and business activities to fight the epidemic and ensure the health of workers. For businesses that have not yet had the epidemic, the provincial and local Management Board of Industrial Parks encourage businesses to implement the "3 on the spot" plan (eating - sleeping - producing on the spot), reduce production and business activities. "This will help protect production, the factory, and workers from the epidemic; ensure to prevent the supply chain of merchandize from being disrupted" - Secretary emphasized.
Di An city also needs to quickly implement support policies for those who are in difficulty due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic in the province according to regulations, especially those selling lottery tickets, workers temporarily losing job. Research to establish a Social Relief Center to support the objects, not to let people face difficulties and lack of material resources.
"Di An needs to be more drastic and radical to mobilize the entire political system to join hands in epidemic prevention and control, stamp out and cut off the epidemic quickly, ensure the health of the people, in which the Secretary and Chairmen of People's Committees at all levels will be the local commanders and take the main responsibility for epidemic prevention and control" - the Secretary emphasized and believed, with the measures that have been implemented, the guidance and support from the Ministry of Health and the province, Di An city will soon stop the source of the epidemic, bring people's lives, production, and business activities back to normal soon.
Reported by Mai Xuan - Quoc Chien - Translated by Nguyen Trang