Accordingly, the Department of Health in coordination with other departments, committees and branches; the People's Committees of districts, towns and cities strengthen the Steering Committees for Covid-19 Prevention and Control at all levels, and the Steering Committees for Covid-19 Prevention and Control at companies, enterprises and agencies, strengthen the direction of the Covid-19 prevention and control, especially new variants.
The Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control at all levels directs and mobilizes the entire political system to participate in pandemic prevention and control activities; strictly implement the direction of the Prime Minister, the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 prevention and control and the instructions of the Ministry of Health on proactively preventing and controlling the Covid-19 pandemic, especially the Omicron variant; proactively develop scenarios and plans to be ready to respond to Covid-19 situations in the locality.
At the same time, strengthening Covid community groups in communes, wards and towns, Covid safety groups at agencies, units, and operating substantively and effectively; strengthening monitoring activities in the community for early detection of suspected cases, related to Omicron variant infections, localizing, promptly and thoroughly handling the outbreak to prevent it from spreading to the community; tightening supervision and management of cases of entry from abroad, especially cases of entry from countries and localities where the Omicron variant has appeared. Checking the accommodation conditions of these cases to ensure that they do not come into contact with people around when they first enter the country as prescribed; monitoring and analyzing data by group, chain of people infected with Omicron to assess the level of infection, severity, death, etc. Strengthening testing activities to detect and identify Omicron variant; encouraging medical facilities, companies, enterprises, organizations and individuals to perform rapid test to detect Covid-19 infections, etc.
In addition, classifying the risks and orienting on how to handle, quarantine and treat cases. F1 cases related to Omicron variant infections are quarantined at home and place of residence; Medical stations and mobile medical stations monitor and take samples for testing. Carrying out 07-day medical quarantine at home and place of residence, self-monitoring for health in the next 07 days. Complying with 5K, if there are signs of abnormal health such as cough, fever, shortness of breath, sore throat, loss of taste, etc. must immediately notify the health agency for monitoring and handling as prescribed; performing SARS-CoV-2 test by Realtime RT-PCR method or rapid antigen test 02 times (1st time at the beginning of quarantine, 2nd time on 7th day).
If a positive case is detected, quarantining, carrying out quarantine, monitoring, management and treatment at home, place of residence or appropriate treatment facility as prescribed. Certificate of quarantine completion is issued by the local Medical stations or Mobile medical stations.
Preparing treatment areas according to 3-tier tower model, meeting 4,000-5,000 cases/day, which can increase to 8,000-10,000 cases/day; promoting the role of the Covid-19 community group, Mobile medical station; strengthening vaccination; inspecting and checking the pandemic prevention and control; implementing regimes and policies for patients and staff serving pandemic prevention and control; increasing application of information technology, etc.
Reported by Doan Trang - Translated by Nguyen Trang