Accordingly, the infectious disease situation in the world continues to be complicated, with many diseases showing an increasing trend in the number of cases in many countries.
To proactively prevent dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, Covid-19 and other epidemics during the rainy season, especially during the peak summer of 2025, contributing to preparing the best conditions for the successful organization of Party Congresses at all levels for the 2025-2030 term and ensuring a safe life for the people of Ho Chi Minh City, the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee requested the City People's Committee Party Committee to lead the City People's Committee to direct the Department of Health to continue to closely monitor the epidemic situation in the area, prepare timely response solutions when situations arise.
Proactively and promptly coordinate with city departments, branches, district People's Committees and Thu Duc City to urgently and effectively implement sustainable management measures and control dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, Covid-19 and other diseases during the rainy season, including paying attention to strengthening protection for people in high-risk groups (illness and severe disease progression).
Direct the Department of Education and Training to closely coordinate with the Department of Health and relevant units to implement disease prevention measures ateducational institutions; strengthen propaganda and guidance for students, parents and teachers to implement personal hygiene and environmental sanitation measures; organize inspections and supervision of disease prevention work at schools; proactively implement disease prevention measures and coordinate to organize vaccination for students according to the plan and instructions of the health sector, to prevent disease outbreaks in schools.
Directing departments, branches, agencies and units with functions to strengthen information, propaganda and communication on disease prevention, health protection for people, families and communities; at the same time, continuing to mobilize people to proactively implement epidemic prevention measures according to recommendations of the health sector to protect themselves, their families and the community; communicating vaccination for adults and children, especially those in risk groups; directing strict handling of cases with negative information and violations of epidemic prevention regulations in the city.
Party committees, party organizations, authorities, the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations at all levels must proactively and urgently disseminate and deploy the entire political system, cadres, party members, union members and association members to seriously implement the requirements, directions and measures to prevent dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, Covid-19 and epidemics during the rainy season of the Government, ministries, branches at the central and city levels, in which it is necessary to focus on people in risk groups, and communicate and mobilize people to proactively get vaccinated according to the instructions of the health sector.
The Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department of the City Party Committee presides over and coordinates with the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Department of Science and Technology to focus on propagating and mobilizing people to strictly implement requirements on disease prevention, raise awareness in preventing dengue fever, hand, foot and mouth disease, Covid-19 and epidemics during the rainy season; continue to deploy appropriate forms of communication so that people in the city correctly and fully understand the epidemic situation, potential risks and actively participate in disease prevention, contributing to the good implementation of the key tasks and solutions of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee and completing the socio-economic development target in 2025, with growth reaching 8% or more.
According to information from the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control, last week, the city recorded 871 cases of hand, foot and mouth disease, an increase of 2.7% compared to the average of the previous 4 weeks. The total number of hand, foot and mouth disease cases accumulated from the beginning of 2025 to the end of last week was 8,637 cases. Districts with high cases per 100,000 people include Binh Tan district, Nha Be district and District 11. In addition, Ho Chi Minh City also recorded 254 cases of dengue fever and 59 cases of measles located in the city. Districts with high numbers of cases include Binh Chanh district, Can Gio district, Cu Chi district, Binh Tan district and Thu Duc city.
Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/nhieu-dich-benh-truyen-nhiem-tang-cao-post798829.html
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