Ms. Huong said that the Ministry of Health has issued a plan for disease prevention and control in 2023, requesting localities to quickly advise and submit to the People's Committees of provinces and cities to develop and implement plans to prevent infectious diseases, especially COVID-19, to soon have a decision approving the implementation budget.
The Ministry of Health requested the People's Committees of provinces and cities to direct relevant units to strengthen medical quarantine, monitoring and supervision at border gates, in the community and in medical facilities to detect early and promptly and thoroughly handle outbreaks; ensure admission and treatment to minimize severe cases and deaths.
Mr. Nguyen Luong Tam, Deputy Director of the Department of Preventive Medicine - Ministry of Health, commented that the COVID-19 epidemic has tended to increase from the beginning of April 2023. People need to stay calm, implement 2K well, and get vaccinated. Provinces that have not yet reached the vaccination rate need to continue to implement, focusing on risk groups. Currently, the Department of Preventive Medicine is coordinating with functional institutes to monitor, analyze, and evaluate the epidemic situation nationwide. Including monitoring the emergence of new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, especially when unusual deaths occur.
The representative of the Department of Preventive Medicine also affirmed that the COVID-19 epidemic and other infectious diseases are still basically under control. However, the risk of infiltration and spread of pathogens is always latent.
Regarding the increase in the number of COVID-19 cases, many localities have also actively implemented response measures. The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has issued Official Dispatch 2712 directing the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control and all public and non-public health facilities to urgently implement measures to strengthen COVID-19 prevention and control. Previously, through decoding the gene sequences of COVID-19 patient samples, Ho Chi Minh City recorded the appearance of the sub-variant XBB.1.5. The World Health Organization classified XBB.1.5 as a variant of concern and continues to monitor closely.
Can Tho City Department of Health has developed 2 plans to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic. In which, plan 1: Implement epidemic prevention at level 1, level 2 but still proactively prevent and ensure social security activities, economic development. Plan 2: when there are signs of an epidemic above level 2, the health sector will switch to the implementation status according to the previous epidemic prevention stratification.
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