In the past 24 hours, Binh Duong recorded 3,332 new cases (expected to be announced by the Ministry of Health on the 19:00 news on August 17, 2021).
Of which, there were 294 cases at medical facilities (accounting for 8.8%), 100 cases of PCR confirmation at temporary isolation areas (accounting for 3%), 1,846 cases in the blockade area (accounting for 55.4%) and 1,092 cases through community screening (accounting for 32.8%).
By residential area, Tan Uyen town 1,778 cases (up 393.9%). Thuan An city 1,015 cases (down 33%); Di An City 287 cases (up 3.2%); Thu Dau Mot City 127 cases (up 216.7%); Ben Cat Town 62 cases (down 41.5%); Bac Tan Uyen district 42 cases (down 83%); Phu Giao district 12 cases (up 100%); Bau Bang district 05 cases (up 150%); Dau Tieng district 0 cases and outside the province 04 cases (up 100%).
During the day, collecting treatment for 1,127 patients; 12 patients died. Since the 4th outbreak, Binh Duong province has recorded 49,833 cases of Covid-19, 402 patients died.
The province's treatment areas are treating 12,486 patients, including 5,092 patients on the 1st floor; The 2nd floor has 6,848 patients, the 3rd floor has 546 patients.
From August 2, 2021, Binh Duong took samples for the second large-scale test. As a result, localities took samples for rapid test and PCR for 346,370 people, with 8,394 positive cases; the results of implementing PCR sampling for 95,856 workers at 99 companies in industrial zones, the results have 226 positive cases.
The whole province currently has 1,247 blockade areas with 125,500 people; 20,572 people are in concentrated isolation; 4,699 cases of F1 are isolated at home and 986 cases of F0 are isolated at home.
Regarding the disbursement of support packages for subjects in the province, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vo Van Minh assigned the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs to preside over the establishment of 6 working groups to support businesses to speed up the process of making a list of requests for employees to soon receive support money according to Resolution 68/NQ-CP of the Government.
As for the implementation of housing rental support for employees staying in the province, districts, towns and cities, it will be completed before August 22, 2021. For the implementation of food support for employees with difficult circumstances staying in the province affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, districts, towns and cities to quickly and promptly deploy and complete before August 25, 2021.
For information related to support policies, people can contact Call Center 1022 through the following channels: Send a message via Zalo Binh Duong SmartCity; send a message on Fanpage: Binh Duong Portal (https://www.facebook.com/websitetinhBinhDuong/); reflected on the mobile App "1022 – Binh Duong"; access the Website at the address: https://1022.binhduong.gov.vn; send mail to email box 1022@binhduong.gov.vn. Or call the hotline numbers of communes, wards and townships. Particularly when calling to the 1022 switchboard, people should call for really urgent problems that need to be resolved immediately, to avoid overloading the line affecting urgent calls. For calls that disrupt the 1022 switchboard, the functional units are investigating, verifying and will strictly handle these cases.
Reported by Yen Nhi - Translated by Nguyen Trang