COVID-19: From July 18, 2020, people traveling from Da Nang to HCMC, Vietnam, must conduct health declarations

COVID-19: From July 18, 2020, people traveling from Da Nang to HCMC, Vietnam, must conduct health declarations (Internet image)

Implementing Notification 253/TB-VPCP dated July 25, 2020, on the Prime Minister of Vietnam's conclusion at the Government's regular meeting on COVID-19 prevention and control, the City Center for Disease Control requests the directors of district and commune Health Centers to implement measures to monitor and prevent COVID-19 in the community as follows:

1. Activate the monitoring system, rapid response teams, and centralized isolation areas in a ready-to-act position when there are instructions to carry out the work.

2. Announce in the community and to workplaces: People traveling from Da Nang to HCMC from July 18, 2020, must conduct health declarations on the nCoV software of the Ministry of Health. To be specific:

- Cases in contact with patients 416, 418, or other patients (if any) must be isolated in centralized isolation facilities and tested as regulated.

- Cases with symptoms related to COVID-19 within 14 days after leaving Da Nang must be  hospitalized, isolated, and tested for Sars-CoV-2.

- Other cases: they must self-monitor their health at home for 14 days, following the guidance of the health sector.

3. Strengthen monitoring to detect illegal entrants; widely communicate in the community; and coordinate to detect cases of illegal entry. Conduct testing and transfer to centralized isolation as regulated. Report to the Ministry of Health, HCDC, local authorities, and the police for processing as regulated.

4. Strictly implement medical isolation monitoring for international flight crew members, experts, and diplomatic personnel.

5. Announce to residential areas: If residents detect two or more cases with respiratory symptoms (fever above 38 degrees and cough) appearing within 7 days, or one severe pneumonia case, or one case of severe acute respiratory infection, they must immediately report to the local health station for health monitoring through an event.

Download Official Dispatch 2333/TTKSBT-BTN issued on July 26, 2020, HERE.

Nguyen Trinh

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