Among 949 cases, 38 were in medical facilities, 379 were in isolation, 63 were in blockade and 469 were through community screening.
According to the locality, Thu Dau Mot city 390 cases, Di An city 196 cases, Thuan An city 173 cases, Tan Uyen town 81 cases, Ben Cat town 44 cases, Bau Bang district 29 cases, Dau Tieng district 07 cases, Phu Giao district 5 cases, Bac Tan Uyen district 11 cases and other provinces and cities 13 cases.
During the day, 398 patients recovered and 10 died.
Since the 4th outbreak, Binh Duong province has recorded 17,807 cases of Covid-19.
The Health sector is treating 7,224 patients (newly detected patients are being transferred to treatment areas and some asymptomatic F0 patients are still isolated in temporary isolation areas); including 102 pregnant women, 127 people over 65 years old, 314 people with underlying diseases, 321 people with severe disease. Cumulatively, 1,792 patients recovered, 94 patients died.
Cases classified by locality in the last 2 days
There are currently 16 treatment areas for Covid-19 patients, treating for 17,240 people.
After 15 days of extensive screening tests, samples were taken for 1,292,846 people; the results detected 12,667 people suspected of having Covid-19 (rate 0.98%).
The province currently has 1,598 blockade areas with 151,969 people; 130 concentrated isolation areas with 20,238 people in isolation and 2,653 F1 cases isolated at home.
Cumulatively, the whole province has vaccinated against Covid-19 for 82,408 people (of which: 75,271 people received the 1st dose; 7,137 people received the 2nd dose; 17,913 people had normal reactions (21.7%).
It is forecasted that in the coming time, the epidemic situation will continue to be complicated and unpredictable. Binh Duong continues to implement social distancing under Directive 16 across the province for another 14 days, from 0:00 on August 2, 2021. Absolutely do not let people move out of their residence (Binh Duong province) from August 1, 2021 until the distance is over (except for those allowed by the government). At the same time, develop response scenarios and plans to improve capacity to collect and treat Covid-19 patients and estimated funding in case the number of F0 cases reaches 20,000 and 25,000 people in the coming days, establishing a shopping center for medical equipment and supplies. The Health sector and localities have accelerated the progress of large-scale testing and screening, trying to complete it as soon as possible, ensure that >95% of the population is sampled against the plan, deploy the 9th and 10th phase of Covid-19 vaccination in the province etc.
To reduce pressure on the Health sector, the Provincial People's Committee has also approved the policy of piloting F0 isolation at home at the proposal of the Department of Health and assigned this unit to issue documents guiding specific conditions, subjects, processes and implementation plans. For asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 being cared and treated at medical facilities or positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 detected in the community, if eligible, organize home isolation. For low-risk F1 cases, follow the instructions of the Department of Health to isolate at home. In case F1 has been isolated for 07 days, if the test results on the 1st and 7th day are negative (perform the PCR test on the 7th day), consider for home isolation for the next 07 days and must perform the test on the 14th day according to the instructions in Official Letter No. 5599/BYT-MT dated July 14, 2021 of the Ministry of Health and Official Letter No. 1722/SYT-NVY dated July 30, 2021 of the Department of Health.
Reported by Yen Nhi - Translated by Nguyen Trang