Recently, the Ministry of Health issued Official Telegram No. 1182/CD-BYT regarding the investigation and handling of Covid-19 outbreaks in the provinces and cities.
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Handling Covid-19 Outbreaks: Go from alley to alley, knock on every door, screen every individual (Illustrative image)
To continue to effectively implement measures to prevent and control the spread of COVID-19 in the community, the Ministry of Health - the standing body of the National Steering Committee requests the People's Committees of Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi City and Dak Lak province to direct the implementation of the following tasks:
- Continue epidemiological investigations, compile a list of all close contacts and related individuals with the patient, carry out isolation and sampling for testing (including: relatives, close contacts, etc.) to conduct confirmatory testing.
- Arrange for isolation, management, and treatment of patients as per the Ministry of Health's guidelines, ensuring infection prevention within treatment facilities.
- Monitor daily the health status of all close contacts and those related to the patient. If any case exhibits symptoms of fever, cough, sneezing, runny nose, fatigue, chills, or difficulty breathing, immediately isolate them at the medical facility and collect samples for testing.
- Enhance surveillance of influenza-like illness (ILI), severe viral pneumonia (SVP), targeted COVID-19 surveillance, and event-based surveillance (EBS) to detect early and thoroughly handle outbreaks in the community.
- Continue to conduct a review (go from alley to alley, knock on every door, screen every individual), compile a list of all individuals who traveled to Da Nang from July 1, 2020, returning to the locality, and those who entered Vietnam illegally and are present in the area, organize isolation, conduct epidemiological investigations, collect samples for testing, and implement other preventive and control measures as per Ministry of Health's guidelines.
- Immediately proceed with handling and thoroughly disinfecting the environment at the patient's residence; places the patient has visited or stayed; transportation means and other related areas as per the Ministry of Health’s guidelines on monitoring and preventing COVID-19.
- Report daily the results of surveillance, investigation, and COVID-19 prevention and control to the Ministry of Health (Department of Preventive Medicine) as required.
According to the report from the infectious disease surveillance system, from July 29, 2020, to date, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, and Dak Lak province have recorded cases of COVID-19 infection, all related to the outbreak in Da Nang City.
More details can be found in: Official Telegram 1182/CD-BYT issued on July 29, 2020.
