COVID-19: 3,500 community cases/day, risk of outbreak, locality of community appeal is not subjective

The Ho Chi Minh City Law newspaper reported that, on the afternoon of March 24, the Steering Committee for the prevention of COVID-19 and the economic recovery of Ho Chi Minh City held a press conference to provide information on the epidemic situation in the area.

Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai – Head of Ho Chi Minh City Health Department Office – answered the press conference. Photo: LD

Answering the question why F0 is not allowed to work or attend school directly like some provinces and cities in the country (Long An, Ca Mau), Head of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health Office – Ms. Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai, provided that currently, consultations on the response to the COVID-19 epidemic are carried out by the Ministry of Health, but Ho Chi Minh City’s Steering Committee for Epidemic Prevention and Economic Recovery is the agency that makes the final decision.

“Evaluating the situation on the number of new COVID-19 cases, the number of severe cases and deaths, the Ministry of Health has advised the Municipal People’s Committee to allow F1 to work if certain conditions are met,” Mai said.

However, with the F0 case, Ms Mai said that it was the sick person who needed to be treated at home or in the hospital.

In fact, for some time, Ho Chi Minh City has had a low death toll, but the number of severe cases is not decreasing in a sustainable manner but is steadily increasing and decreasing. Therefore, if the number of COVID-19 cases increases, it is certain that severe cases and deaths will increase, which is the experience the City has learned from previous outbreaks.

Vietnamplus Information, Deputy Executive Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) – Mr. Nguyen Hong Tam further analyzed, now the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee clearly states that F1 can start working after the full dose has been injected with the COVID-19 vaccine or recovered within 3 months.

In addition, the city also introduced mandatory requirements that F1 must comply with when returning to work in person, to avoid the risk of infection.

“The Ministry of Health proposed that F0 go to work, but only in two situations and under some special conditions. In particular, on a voluntary basis, F0 can work online or in the F0 care area. , implement strict infection prevention and control measures. ,” said Mr. Nguyen Hong Tam.

The newspaper Tuoi Tre said, answering the question whether it was time to consider COVID-19 as an endemic disease, Nguyen Thi Huynh Mai said that the Government had directed the Ministry of Health to review and re-evaluate the criteria for the epidemic level. management of infected people, to make timely and appropriate adjustments, accurately assess the epidemic situation, refer to international experience, and then take appropriate and effective measures to achieve normalization, normalize with the epidemic, treat COVID-19 as an endemic disease .

Previously, through discussions with domestic experts, the US CDC and the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ministry of Health assessed that the COVID-19 infection rate in Vietnam was unstable, there were large differences between localities. In particular, infection rates are still high and many provinces and cities are experiencing sharp increases in the number of infections. The daily death rate is still high compared to other infectious diseases.

In addition, the SARS-CoV-2 virus is constantly appearing new variants and subvariants. For example, the Omicron variant has subvariants BA.1, BA.2, BA.3 which have the ability to evade immunity and cause reinfection, making it difficult to determine its occurrence.

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