Temporarily suspending medical declarations for people entering the country
On April 26, the Ministry of Health sent a document to the People’s Committees of provinces and cities that have medical quarantine activities, about the temporary suspension of the application of Covid-19 medical declaration at all Vietnam’s border gates for people entering the country. entry from 0:00 on April 27.
Provinces and cities maintain supervise passengers on entry at border gates in accordance with the Government’s Decree No. 89/2018/ND-CP dated June 25, 2018 detailing the implementation of a number of articles of the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases. on border health quarantine.
At the same time, proactively update communication materials, recommend Covid-19 prevention and control in accordance with the current situation and proactively report in a timely manner.
According to the Ministry of Health, the current Covid-19 epidemic hascontrolled nationwide with high vaccine coverage rate.
Before that, at At an online conference on project 06 (validation of vaccination information) on the morning of April 26, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Thanh Long, Minister of Health said that he would remove medical declarations in the near future.
“Vietnam no longer applies epidemiological tracing and is returning to normal life, so it no longer applies domestic health declaration,” the Health Minister said.
The Department of Preventive Medicine is developing guidelines and will provide written instructions for localities to step by step through this normalization process.
From August 2020, the Ministry of Health issued a 5K message including Mask – Disinfection – Distance – Do not gather – Medical declaration in the context that Vietnam recorded more than 1,000 infections / day. The 5K message has been maintained since then when the whole country has moved from the state of “Zero Covid” to “Safe adaptation, flexible and effective control of the Covid-19 epidemic”.
Many medical experts believe that the 5K regulation should be changed to 2K, keeping “Masks” and “Disinfection” (washing hands often). The remaining 3K should not be mandatory but only encouraged by the people.
According to the explanation, 5K is no longer suitable in the context of the rapidly increasing number of cases in localities like today. In particular, the Omicron strain is now dominant and gradually replacing Delta, which is important now to control the rate of severe transfer and mortality.
Currently, many anti-epidemic policies have been changed compared to before. The Ministry of Health has adjusted the regulations, without isolating F1, just wear a mask, regularly wash your hands with soap or an antiseptic solution. F0 still needs to be isolated and can go to work if absolutely necessary and voluntary.
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