Accompanying the delegation were Mr. Do Van Chien - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and leaders of a number of Ministries, Central committees and branches.
Receiving and working with the Delegation were Mr. Nguyen Van Loi - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control; 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 and comrades in the Provincial Standing Party Committee.
Fighting the pandemic with the highest solutions
Reporting to the Delegation, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vo Van Minh said that Binh Duong, with a population of 2.5 million, had the first positive case in the community on March 31, 2021. Accumulated to July 30, 2021, the province had 12,014 cases of infection in the community in 9/9 districts, towns and cities; 62 deaths.
Binh Duong has seriously deployed to change the anti-pandemic state with the highest combat solutions to quickly control the Covid-19 pandemic under the motto of "04 on the spot" (force on the spot, command on the spot, vehicles on the spot, and logistics on the spot) and "03 no" (no say lack of funds; no say lack of human resources; no say lack of mechanisms and policies in pandemic prevention and control). The province has directed to tighten and manage localities with outbreaks, high-risk lockdown areas and continued to implement social distancing across the province in accordance with Directive 16 of the Prime Minister from 0:00 on July 19, 2021. All people in the province are requested not to go out; shops and business establishments must close and stop their operations from 18:00 the previous day to 06:00 the next day from July 28, 2021.
According to the motto of tightening and managing each locality, the province has requested localities, besides the existing control stations, to deploy and establish new checkpoints and stations for pandemic prevention and control to quarters and hamlets; to proactively take measures to issue travel cards and vouchers to people who really need to go out; resolutely not to "tighten outside, loose inside" in quarantine and lockdown areas.
Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vo Van Minh reports at the meeting
After 12 days of implementing a large-scale testing and screening plan to quickly "separate" F0 from the community, Binh Duong has tested 978,647 people, accounting for 40% of the population; thereby detected 10,728 people suspected of Covid-19 infection (rate of 1.1%), and is sending samples for PCR confirmation.
The entire province has 1,100 areas under lockdown with 107,867 people; 126 concentrated quarantine sites with 18,969 people and 2,533 F1 cases are being quarantined at home.
Binh Duong has 16 treatment areas with the number of beds to accommodate 17,240 people and is developing a treatment plan to 20,000 beds. The treatment is developed according to the "03-tier" model to reduce the load on provincial treatment facilities.
Binh Duong has nearly 50,000 enterprises with more than 1.2 million employees from most provinces and cities. In which, there are 29 industrial parks with over 2,000 enterprises, 485,670 Vietnamese workers and 14,900 foreign workers; 12 industrial clusters with 40,000 employees. At the same time, there are many boarding houses interspersed with factories and enterprises, so the risk of pandemic entering and spreading into enterprises is very high.
The province only allows enterprises to conduct production and business activities when meeting the requirements of pandemic prevention and control according to regulations, especially ensuring the "3 on the spot" or "1 road, 2 locations" plan. Up to now, there are 3,662 enterprises registered to carry out production under these 02 plans.
Performing Directive 16 more strictly and tightly
According to Mr. Vo Van Minh, with the implementation of a large-scale testing and screening plan for 1.8 million people, it is forecasted that in the next two weeks, Binh Duong will have about 20,000 new cases. In order to ensure the capacity to respond to pandemic prevention and control, the province will continue to speed up in the large-scale testing and screening in the coming time; quickly return results within 12 hours to soon detect and "separate" F0 immediately from the community. The province will invest in more concentrated quarantine areas to ensure 50,000 beds and expand to 100,000 beds; adding a patient treatment area to meet 5,000 beds and raise it to 20,000 beds. Expeditiously procuring materials, equipment, test kits, biological products, etc. to ensure that all emergency response requirements are met; investing in 60 ventilators, oxygen masks, oximeter SP02, etc. for treatment. At the same time, deploying promptly, effectively and to the right subjects according to the Government's Resolution 68/NQ-CP dated July 01, 2021.
Before the current pandemic situation, Binh Duong has proposed the Central Government continue to support more 1,486 doctors, 4,014 nurses, technicians and medical equipment.
Through actual surveys in localities in the province, members of the Delegation said that Binh Duong needs to pay close attention pandemic prevention and control in enterprises. Any enterprise that does not ensure will be resolutely stopped its operation. However, when enterprises stop their operations, it is necessary to ensure testing for workers, coordinate with localities to bring workers back to their hometown in a methodical and safe way.
In addition, the province should focus on propaganda for workers to stabilize the spirit, ensure security and order. Prioritizing vaccination for employees working in industrial parks and small traders selling essential goods.
Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Do Van Chien assessed that Binh Duong is doing very well in mobilizing the support of organizations and individuals for pandemic prevention and control. This is a great resource to support the province to fight the pandemic. At the same time, he noted that the implementation of regimes and policies for those affected by the pandemic is also very important, Binh Duong needs to deploy immediately to ensure people's lives.
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks to direct at the meeting
Speaking to direct at the meeting, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that Binh Duong is a place for trade connections, with many enterprises, factories, and a large number of workers, which has potential for a strong outbreak of the pandemic. The President highly appreciated the province's pandemic prevention and control measures and the efforts of Party executive committees and authorities at all levels in pandemic prevention and control. At the same time, he praised Becamex IDC as the leading unit in deploying field hospitals to treat Covid-19 patients.
Unifying the view of "fighting the pandemic like fighting the enemy", the President asked Binh Duong to study and apply effective policies of Ho Chi Minh City to reduce the pressure on the medical team, etc. Implementing the distancing according to Directive 16 more strictly and tightly. Mobilizing the system of private hospitals and retired doctors to participate in treatment. Firmly keeping the "green zone", tightly localizing the "red zone".
The President asked the province to continue implementing solutions to minimize the number of infections and deaths. Strengthening screening, testing, expanding treatment areas, promoting vaccination. Severe cases must be treated promptly, in order to reduce the number of patients dying. In addition, strengthening the role of the Community Covid-19 Groups and the Covid-19 Safety Groups to monitor and detect cases. Communicating properly, sufficiently and transparently, so that people can strictly comply with regulations on pandemic prevention and control. The President noted that the province needs to quickly implement support policies in accordance with Resolution 68 of the Government as well as specific local policies, mobilizing organizations and individuals to join hands to support, not to let people go hungry, leave no one behind.
Emphasizing that Binh Duong is one of the economic locomotives of the country, the President believes that the Party committee, government and people of Binh Duong will unite, determine and unite to fight the pandemic. Actively having a plan to restore production and business immediately after the pandemic is controlled.
Secretary of Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi speaks at the meeting
Secretary Nguyen Van Loi received the direction of the President and promised to concretize the directives into solutions, proactively operate anti-pandemic scenarios with a plan of 20,000 cases in the coming time. The Secretary wished the Central committees and branches to give maximum support to help Binh Duong soon fight the pandemic.
On this occasion, the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front supported Binh Duong 5 billion VND, the State Bank of Vietnam supported 5 billion VND, and Sacombank supported 5 billion VND for pandemic prevention and control.
The Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front supports Binh Duong 5 billion VND for pandemic prevention and control
Sacombank supports Binh Duong 5 billion VND for pandemic prevention and control
Reported by Phuong Chi - Mai Xuan - Translated by Nguyen Trang