​For industrial zones

The Ministry of Health proposed Binh Duong to establish 100 groups (3-4 people/group) to guide, inspect and evaluate epidemic prevention and control work for industrial parks and large enterprises outside industrial zones.

The composition of the team, inspection team, instructions and safety assessment according to Decision No. 2194/QD-BCDQG dated May 27, 2020 of the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control and Decision No. 2787/QD-BYT dated June 5, 2021 of the Ministry of Health including: Industrial Zones Authority, Department of Industry and Trade, Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and related departments (except the Department of Health and the Provincial Center for Disease Control). In which, the Industrial Zones Authority is responsible for and acts as the focal point to report to the Provincial People's Committee. Request within 05 days to complete the instructions, assess the safety for businesses and re-inspect once a week to correct the epidemic prevention and control at enterprises inside and outside the industrial zone.

Piloting for businesses to self-deploy Covid-19 rapid tests for workers and assigning the Provincial Center for Disease Control to guide the pilot for businesses. Consider mandatory or encourage businesses to pay for the cost of rapid testing and testing for employees once a week during the epidemic.

Deploying Atalink software, researching and applying worker management, tracing when there is a case of F0 in the industrial park.

The Ministry of Health proposed Binh Duong to set up working groups and delegations to guide and inspect epidemic prevention and control for industrial parks​

Establishing a Covid-19 Safety Team in enterprises. Each production workshop/team/department must have a Covid-19 safety team daily to inspect and supervise the implementation of 5K in the workshop. Timely detecting cases of health abnormalities, immediately reporting to local health authorities for timely handling measures.

Implement traffic regulation during peak hours (early morning and late afternoon) to avoid congestion in industrial parks.

It is recommended that enterprises arrange at least 20% - 50% of workers to eat, stay and work at the enterprise to ensure production safety and avoid disruption of the production chain when there is an F0 shift in the enterprise.

In concentrated isolation areas

Assign the Provincial Military Command to be responsible for comprehensive management of concentrated isolation areas, in order to reduce pressure on the Health sector. Medical units only carry out tasks of medical expertise, prevention and control of cross-infection in isolation areas.

Review the capacity of current concentrated isolation areas to develop plans, survey the expansion of concentrated isolation areas when there are large number of F1 cases. Proposing pilot implementation of F1 isolation at home, at businesses, and in business dormitories (if possible) to be ready to apply when the disease breaks out on a large scale.

It is recommended that the Department of Health and the Provincial Center for Disease Control adjust the software to manage concentrated isolation areas throughout the province appropriately and deploy. Establish monitoring teams for prevention and control of cross-infection in isolated areas at city, town and district levels. Each isolation area must meet the requirement to carry out inspection and supervision once a day.

Assign specific departments to strictly control, ensure that mass food poisoning does not occur in concentrated isolation areas.

Testing and treatment work

In testing work, the Provincial Center for Disease Control was assigned to review the Covid-19 testing capacity in the province (including the capacity of public and non-public testing units). Assign the Department of Health and the Provincial Center for Disease Control to coordinate all testing work in the province (including service testing units must report to the provincial Center for Disease Control for management).

Review research for service testing units to be tested for businesses and publicly list prices for Covid-19 testing.

Deploying Covid-19 testing management by software, applying information technology to manage testing work and answering results throughout the province.

At the same time, review machinery and equipment for the treatment of Covid-19 patients (ECMO machines, ventilators etc.) to promptly replenish in case of large-scale outbreaks.

Proposing the Provincial People's Committee to study prevention and establish a hospital to collect and initially treat asymptomatic Covid-19 patients at university and college dormitories for prevention in case of an outbreak.

Reported by Phuong Chi-Translated by Nguyen Trang