Accordingly, on November 30, 2020, the Ministry of Health announced a new case of Covid-19 in the community after 86 days that Vietnam has not had a case in the community since the outbreak in Da Nang. It was case number 1347 in Ho Chi Minh City after contact with a flight attendant of Vietnam Airline (BN1342). The infection of the case to the community in Ho Chi Minh City is caused by the lack of strict management and supervision of centralized medical quarantine and home and residential quarantine, especially short-time quarantine supervision.
Based on the Prime Minister's directions on pandemic prevention and control during the last time, the Provincial People's Committee requested the Department of Health to coordinate with the Provincial Public Security, the Provincial Military Command and the People's Committees of districts, towns, cities and related units to closely supervise the implementation of quarantine at the areas designated as concentrated quarantine, home or residential quarantine, not allow unauthorized people to enter the quarantine area and ask quarantined people to comply with regulations, wear masks regularly and not have close contact with surrounding people to avoid spreading. Regularly inspecting the implementation of quarantine in areas of concentrated quarantine, home and residential quarantine, evaluating and strictly punishing units and individuals for violations that cause Covid-19 to infiltrate and infect the community. For the implementation of short-time concentrated medical quarantine, it is necessary to carefully consider, closely monitor and comply with the quarantine regulations of the Ministry of Health
The provincial public security closely supervises and reviews cases going back from abroad to early detect, prevent in time cases of illegal entry, and require strict handling and quarantine according to regulations.
The Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism directs hotel accommodation establishments to strictly comply with Covid-19 pandemic prevention and control measures; strictly manage guests staying, especially foreign guests. For hotels used as quarantine establishments for foreign experts, it is necessary to strictly abide by the regulations of the Ministry of Health, not to let the pandemic infect the community.
Departments, committees, branches, political organizations and local authorities continue to thoroughly grasp the anti-pandemic spirit with the highest level of vigilance, not subjective, neglect; associating with the responsibility of heads of localities and units in implementing Covid-19 pandemic prevention and control activities.
The media agencies continue to strengthen the propaganda of people to comply with the regulations on pandemic prevention and control, wear masks when arriving in crowded places, regularly wash hands with antiseptic solution; make medical declaration if there is a contact to Covid-19 positive cases notified by the Ministry of Health in Ho Chi Minh City.