Specifically, from 0:00 on July 22, 2021, centralized quarantine will be organized at centralized quarantine locations in the city for all people returning from epidemic areas that are implementing social distancing according to Official Dispatch No. 969/TTg-KGVX dated July 17, 2021 of the Prime Minister; except for forces serving epidemic prevention and control work; public service work must ensure requirements and regulations on epidemic prevention and control as permitted by competent authorities.
The Chairman of the City People's Committee assigned the Chairmen of the People's Committees of districts, towns and cities to direct and develop plans to ensure 24/7 on-duty work, especially at the headquarters of government agencies at all levels and local medical facilities to promptly handle all situations in the shortest time; proactively develop scenarios and organize drills at the ward, commune, town and urban area scale in accordance with the spirit of Directive No. 16/CT-TTg of the Prime Minister.
Localities also directed functional forces at the grassroots level, community Covid teams to coordinate with the Fatherland Front and local socio-political organizations to strengthen community surveillance, closely manage and monitor people returning from other provinces and cities.
For those who have returned from Ho Chi Minh City and other epidemic areas, localities will announce on local radio stations, clearly stating information, list, and date of return to the locality so that people and authorities can closely monitor their movements and minimize the risk of infection; at the same time, propagate, remind, and strictly handle violations.
The Director of the Department of Health is assigned to direct the Hanoi Center for Disease Control, medical examination and treatment facilities of the city, and medical centers of districts, towns to implement a 24/7 duty regime; strengthen the work of taking samples and testing all cases with suspected symptoms of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection such as: cough, fever, difficulty breathing, ... in the area.
The Department of Health directs medical examination and treatment facilities in the area to develop plans and request medical examination and treatment facilities managed by the Ministry of Health to consolidate and expand the Intensive Care Department to be ready to receive and treat seriously ill patients; train and establish many teams and groups with sufficient capacity for advanced intensive care such as invasive mechanical ventilation, ECMO, and blood filtration to be ready to train and support other hospitals in the area.
Medical examination and treatment facilities in the area are proactively ready to prepare plans, resources, medical equipment, treatment drug lists, consumables, protective equipment and infection control work according to Decision No. 2626/QD-BYT dated May 28, 2021 of the Ministry of Health for the Intensive Care Unit to treat severe Covid-19 patients, paying special attention to compressed air systems, central oxygen, ventilators... to expand the capacity to admit patients, promptly respond when the epidemic spreads and breaks out.
Hospitals urgently review SARS-CoV-2 screening testing capacity, complete facilities, equipment, human resources and level II biosafety conditions to promptly support SARS-CoV-2 virus testing according to the instructions in Decision No. 2245/QD-BYT dated April 22, 2020 of the Ministry of Health.
Strengthen inspection of plans to organize quarantine facilities in districts, towns, and cities, advise and report to the City People's Committee to direct the implementation of plans to respond to quarantine for 30,000 and 50,000 people, with priority given to organizing in suburban areas.
The City People's Committee requested the City's Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and socio-political organizations to coordinate with grassroots functional forces to strengthen the implementation of epidemic prevention and control measures in the city.
Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Chu Ngoc Anh requested the people of the capital to strictly implement epidemic prevention and control measures according to the direction of the Central and the city; only go out when necessary; when detecting symptoms: cough, fever, shortness of breath, ... proactively contact local medical facilities to get samples taken, tested, and screened as soon as possible.
The risk of disease spreading is very high, each citizen must be a soldier, each family a fortress, join hands to fight the epidemic; the awareness and responsibility of each citizen at this time is extremely important, to join the community and authorities at all levels to be determined to control and prevent the epidemic.
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