Xinhua News Agency, Hanoi, August 23rd: Summary: Epidemic continues to spread in southern Vietnam, and epidemic prevention measures continue to be upgraded
Xinhua News Agency reporter Huang Shuo Jiang Shengxiong
According to information released by the Ministry of Health of Vietnam on the evening of the 23rd, Vietnam reported 10,280 new confirmed cases of new crown on the same day. The number of new confirmed cases in a single day for the fifth consecutive day exceeded 10,000, with a total of 358,456 confirmed cases and a total of 8,666 deaths. The severe epidemic situation in southern provinces and cities, dominated by Vietnam’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh City, has forced the government to continuously upgrade epidemic prevention measures in order to control the epidemic in September.
Before the end of April this year, Vietnam had only reported a few thousand confirmed cases. Since the end of April, affected by the delta strain, the number of confirmed cases in Vietnam has continued to increase. First, large-scale infections occurred in industrial parks in the northern provinces of Bac Giang and Bac Ninh, and then church-related cluster infections and other chains of transmission in Ho Chi Minh City. At present, Ho Chi Minh City and its surrounding provinces and cities have become the hardest hit areas of the epidemic. Binh Duong, Long An and Dong Nai provinces adjacent to Ho Chi Minh City have accumulated more than 10,000 confirmed cases of new crown, of which Binh Duong Province has confirmed more than 70,000 cases. , Second only to Ho Chi Minh City.
The Minister of Health of Vietnam Nguyen Thanh Long stated at a work conference on epidemic prevention and control recently that the delta strain spreads quickly and the infection cycle is short in this round of epidemics. There are epidemics in many densely populated provinces and cities with many industrial parks and high mobility of people between regions. , And spread rapidly in residential areas with poor conditions.
Ho Chi Minh City has implemented the most stringent epidemic prevention measures from July 9th, including restrictions on citizens’ travel, suspension of non-essential services and most public transportation, etc., and announced on the 15th of this month that the measures will be extended to September 15th; in addition, from Starting from July 26, citizens will be prohibited from going out from 18:00 to 6:00 the next day. However, in the past month, the epidemic data in Ho Chi Minh City has remained high. According to data from the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City reported 4,251 new confirmed cases on the 23rd, with a total of more than 180,000 confirmed cases. There were 599 new deaths that day, while the number of new deaths per day in the past week was basically two to three hundred.
The health department of Ho Chi Minh City previously stated that the increase in reported confirmed cases was the result of large-scale nucleic acid testing in the city. However, some experts believe that some citizens have taken to the streets in violation of epidemic prevention regulations because of factors such as seeking livelihoods. The previous epidemic prevention measures cannot guarantee that neighbors will not contact each other. As a result, Ho Chi Minh City has been tightening epidemic prevention measures while the number of confirmed cases continues to increase.
Nguyen Chang Son, Deputy Minister of Health of Vietnam, recently told the media that there are a large number of new confirmed cases every day, and insufficient medical resources have prevented adequate treatment of critically ill patients. These factors have contributed to a sharp increase in the number of new crown deaths in Ho Chi Minh City. Ho Chi Minh City began to pilot home care for infected people in the middle of this month to save medical resources and concentrate resources on treating critically ill patients.
The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City announced a few days ago that it will strive to contain the epidemic in the city by September 15. According to the Viet News Agency, in order to achieve this goal, Ho Chi Minh City will implement enhanced anti-epidemic measures in accordance with the principle of “keep in place” from 23rd to 6th of this month, during which only anti-epidemic personnel, police, and infrastructure maintenance are allowed. The government arranges working groups to assist residents in high-risk and extremely high-risk areas to purchase food and supplies, and has set up hundreds of mobile medical stations with functions such as treating patients and monitoring home care personnel. . In addition, military reinforcements have been deployed on streets and checkpoints in various areas of Ho Chi Minh City from the 23rd to strengthen patrols and inspections to ensure that the epidemic prevention measures are fully implemented.
According to a report by the Vietnam News Agency, Vietnamese Prime Minister Fan Myung-chung requested on the 22nd that Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Long An and other places “totally and strictly” implement social distancing measures and quickly carry out large-scale sampling and testing. Among them, Ho Chi Minh City should implement all staff. Test, and give priority to the distribution of vaccines to Ho Chi Minh City.
Vietnam is still increasing the procurement of new crown vaccines and promoting vaccination in various places. According to the information on the Vietnam New Crown Vaccination website, as of noon on the 23rd, Vietnam has received more than 17.4 million doses of the new crown vaccine, of which more than 5.48 million doses have been vaccinated in Ho Chi Minh City. Fan Mingzheng asked the media to widely publicize the benefits of new crown vaccination earlier this month in order to mobilize the public to vaccinate as soon as possible.
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