Accordingly, it is required that committees, branches, mass organizations, armed forces of the city, Chairmen of People's Committees of wards, organizations and enterprises continue to strictly implement and tighten social distancing according to Directive 16 of the Prime Minister under the consistent and higher motto. Implementing "lockdown, freeze" in 4 wards: Di An, An Binh, Tan Dong Hiep and Dong Hoa within 7 days from 6:00 on August 23, 2021 until the end of August 29, 2021.
All people "stay where they are", ward quarantines ward, quarter quarantines quarter, house quarantines house, establishing checkpoints to seal the entrance and exit, closely protect each area, especially the "green zone"; it is only possible to expand and establish more "green zones", not to let the pandemic return to the established "green zones", not to allow people to go back and forth between wards, quarters, residential areas, house to house, except in cases permitted.
Stopping to grant certificates to go out in urgent cases for people (buying food, foodstuffs, essential goods, excluding going for emergency care and buying medicine). Cases that are allowed to go out include: Steering Committees for pandemic prevention and control at all levels; officials, civil servants, public employees, employees in the political system, public non-business units come to work and go back; medical forces, volunteers on duty, troubleshooting forces of infrastructure, electricity, water, telecommunications, reporters, delivery forces of supermarkets, food stores, convenience stores to checkpoints and other subjects permitted and certified by competent authorities within the specified time frame.
People are only allowed to go to the checkpoints to receive food, relief goods, necessities, and medicine, except in cases of emergency, testing, vaccination, or holding funeral observance on the basis of invitations, requests, certifications of authorities and must take 5K measures.
Stopping all operations of traditional markets, grocery stores, changing the form of direct sales of food stores, convenience stores, and supermarkets to the form of order taking and delivery, distribution to checkpoints to deliver and distribute to people (medicine stores are still allowed to operate).
For wards: Binh An, Binh Thang, and Tan Binh, encouraging to implement like wards that apply strong measures, "stay where they are". Assigning Chairmen of ward People's Committees to report to wards' Standing Steering Committees for Covid-19 Prevention and Control to consider and decide on pandemic prevention and control plans, but must ensure: To apply the time frame to minimize circulation and operation according to Document no. 1716/UBND-VX dated July 28, 2021, Document 1882/UBND-VX dated August 15, 2021 of the City People's Committee. People are not allowed to go out; stores and business establishments must close or stop operations within the time frame from 18:00 the previous day to 06:00 the next day. For going out when necessary such as buying food, foodstuffs, necessities, medicine, it can only be performed in the time frame from 06:00 to 18:00 (following the coupons granted by the Steering Committees for Covid-19 Prevention and Control in the wards, but only to the maximum limit) except for the cases that are allowed to circulate and operate in the limited time frame from 18:00 to 6:00 the next morning.
Reported by Yen Nhi - Translated by Nguyen Trang