Attending were Mr. Nguyen Hoang Thao – Permanent 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 leaders of departments, committees and branches. The meeting was online to 09 bridge points of the district, town and city.
Binh Duong basically repels the pandemic
According to the report, by October 10, 2021, the province had 222,082 cases of Covid-19 in 9/9 districts, towns and cities, 209,000 recovered patients and 2,181 deaths. Facing the complicated developments of the Covid-19 pandemic, the province has synchronously implemented many solutions under the direction of the Government and the Prime Minister on Covid-19 prevention and control, and the guidance of the Ministry of Health.
In the past 7 days (from October 04 to October 10), the adjustment of Covid-19 prevention and control measures has been carried out, step by step loosening social distance according to the roadmap, the pandemic situation in Binh Duong province has been positive. The number of F0 cases detected in the community decreased by 39% compared to the previous week. Most of the outbreaks in the community have been controlled; the number of new cases has been mainly detected in the lockdown and quarantine areas. The number of F0 cases discharged from the hospital is more than the number of new cases (920 new cases and 2,614 discharges per day on average). The number of deaths decreased sharply, in the week recorded 117 cases, an average of 17 cases per day.
Binh Duong has conducted large scale testing and screening for more than 10.9 million people; organized to administer 2,888,015 doses of Covid-19 vaccine, of which 2,273,126 people with the 1st dose and 614,889 people with the 2nd dose. As of October 10, 2021, the province has 02 "yellow zone" wards, 89 "green zone" communes, wards and towns. The province has established 169 Mobile medical stations in 100% of communes, wards and commune-level towns, including 21 Mobile medical stations in industrial parks and clusters.
Overview of the meeting
In addition to the general policies of the Central Government, the province also promulgated a number of separate social security policies to support people such as: Supporting boarding house rent; food and foodstuff for workers living in difficult circumstances who are staying in boarding houses; supporting members of the Covid-19 community group; increasing the meal allowance in addition to the Government's prescribed policy for F0 patients and medical staff serving patients in the quarantine area; supporting people in lockdown areas with food and foodstuffs.
As of October 10, 2021, the province has provided policy support according to Resolution no. 68/ND-CP, Resolution no. 04/2021/NQ-HDND (supporting boarding house rent 300,000 VND/person), Decision no. 12/2021/QD-UBND (supporting food in cash or gifts worth 500,000 VND/employee in difficult circumstances) for 3,538,785 turns of people, with the amount of 2,241,185 billion VND.
According to Chairman of the provincial Committee of Vietnam Fatherland Front Nguyen Van Loc, from mobilizing organizations, individuals and enterprises to support the pandemic prevention and control, the provincial Committee of Vietnam Fatherland Front has deducted the amount of 215.6 billion VND to purchase equipment, medical supplies and take care of social security and frontline forces. At the same time, coordinating with mass organizations to organize practical activities to take care of people such as "Zero dong market", giving more gifts from the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front. Although the implementation of social security has been done quite well, Mr. Loc acknowledged that there are still places, sometimes not proactive, timely and slow compared to the requirements. Therefore, branches and levels need to continue to review the remaining cases to support the right subjects.
Striving for 90% of enterprises to resume operations by the end of October
Binh Duong has implemented a cautious, strict and sure step by step loosening of the distancing according to the "As safe as it is, open the door, open the door must be safe", "Safe to produce, production must be safe" mottos.
Currently, enterprises in the province are urgently preparing to resume operations under the new normal conditions, moving towards normal, it is expected that by the end of October 2021, 90% of enterprises will resume operations. As of October 07, 2021, in the province, there are 4,216 enterprises registered to operate under the "3 on the spot", "1 road, 2 destinations" and "3 green" production plans with 444,496 employees. (2,289 enterprises in industrial parks with 314,354 employees; 69 enterprises in industrial clusters with 9,109 employees and 1,858 enterprises outside industrial parks and clusters with 121,033 employees).
However, the current difficulty is the shortage of employees working in enterprises of leather, footwear, textiles, assembly of electronic components, etc. Many enterprises have a majority of experts and employees currently living in Ho Chi Minh City. The province has commented, but Ho Chi Minh City has not yet issued official guidelines to facilitate these cases to return to Binh Duong to work.
Supporting to remove obstacles and difficulties for enterprises to restart production
The Provincial People's Committee directs branches and levels to coordinate in supporting enterprises to remove difficulties and restart production. Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Vo Van Minh asked that localities in the province to have flexible solutions, carefully consider how to do, when to implement, assess the impact, etc., ensure effective and efficient pandemic prevention and control in the area, and at the same time create favorable conditions for people's movement, traffic, and transportation of goods and raw materials for production.
Commenting with the province on some solutions to prevent and control the pandemic in the current period, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Lan Hieu - Director of Hanoi Medical University Hospital shared: "For Binh Duong - a province with a lot of industrial parks, the incidence is more than 10% of the population and the 1st dose of vaccine has been given to nearly 100% of the people and more than 30% of the 2nd dose for people aged 18 and over, I propose to gradually phase out concentrated quarantine areas and field hospitals. Forming a network of patient care at home at the commune level. People infected with Covid-19 can take care of themselves according to the set of criteria issued by the Ministry of Health, but local health care must be monitored for care. The infected area can be quarantined from a narrow range. F0 cases with severe changes, unstable underlying disease or unvaccinated people can be taken to the hospital early for treatment. The Covid-19 treatment area should be divided into 3 levels: Emergency resuscitation, moderate disease treatment and post-Covid-19 area. As soon as the F0 cases have tested negative, it is necessary to move to the post-Covid-19 tier for care and treatment like normal patients. The treatment area needs to review the adequate supply of liquid oxygen, equipment, drugs, consumables and human resources. Bringing private healthcare in.
In addition, the province needs to prepare a vaccination plan for children from 12 to under 18 years old when instructed. Increasing injection for the workers and employees. Reorganizing housing areas for migrant workers and employees. When a positive case is detected, the government supports the boarding houses so that infected people can stay separately and quarantine".
Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi concludes the meeting
Speaking at the conclusion of the meeting, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Loi highly appreciated the positive signals of the pandemic prevention and control, reflected in the absence of new outbreaks, the control of old outbreaks, and a high rate of vaccination coverage, etc. In order to safely and flexibly adapt to the pandemic, restore production in the new normal, the Secretary directed the branches and localities to continue building and perfecting the system of mobile medical stations; reorganizing the treatment as proposed by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Lan Hieu; restructuring F0 treatment areas in the spirit of saving, etc. Ensuring fast testing and results; vaccination coverage, priority given to employees of "3 on-the-spot" enterprises. Better managing people entering and leaving the province at checkpoints bordering other provinces and cities. Propagating and guiding treatment of F0 at home. Regarding social security, it is necessary to support the right subjects and deal with the remaining cases; establish teams to inspect the pandemic prevention and control and ensure social security at boarding houses.
The Secretary emphasized that, after a period of loosening the distancing, Binh Duong initially recorded many positive results; however, that is not why it is subjective and negligent in pandemic prevention. The province will continue to carry out key tasks in the new period under the direction of the Central Government, quickly return the locality to a new normal, restore production and business, and strive to achieve the set socio-economic development goals.
Reported by Phuong Chi-Translated by Nguyen Trang