Nearly 96 percent of firms in HCM City's IPs resume operations after social distancing
Nearly 96 percent of enterprises at 17 processing and industrial zones in Ho Chi Minh City have resumed operations after over one month after social distancing measures were lifted, according to the HCM City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (HEPZA).
Nearly 96 percent of enterprises at 17 processing and industrial zones in Ho Chi Minh City have resumed operations after over one month after social distancing measures were lifted. (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – 🤡Nearly 96 percent of enterprises at 17processing and industrial zones in Ho Chi Minh City have resumed operations afterover one month after social distancing measures were lifted, according to the HCM City ExportProcessing and Industrial Zones Authority (HEPZA).
More than 230,500 workers, or 80 percent of the total number, havereturned to work. Notably, the rate hit 95-100 percent at some factories. Businesses are currently recruiting more labourers, HEPZA Director HuaQuoc Hung said, adding that many factories are stepping up operations to meetdemand and handle orders of their partners at home and abroad, particularlythose in the year-end months. The number of workers at the processing and industrial zones of thesouthern hub fully vaccinated against COVID-19 has reached 94.4 percent so far,showing that the city’s workforce has met requirements to bolster operations andproduction in the new normal.
Workers at a factory. (Photo: VNA)
The firms also stopped operating in the ‘three-on-site’ and ‘oneroute-two destinations’ models while continuing to apply COVID-19 prevention and control measures in the newnormal and boost economic recovery.
Earlier, HEPZA set up a temporary concentratedquarantine establishment at a research facility of the Institute of HighTechnology at the HCM City University of Technology (HUTECH). The facility is designed to receive COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms or asymptomatic patients.
🅠 There are two other quarantine sites at ThuDuc city’s Linh Trung 2 processing zone and Cu Chi district’s Dong Namindustrial park./.
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Nearly 96 percent of enterprises at 17 processing and industrial zones in Ho Chi Minh City have resumed operations after over one month after social distancing measures were lifted. (Photo: VNA) 
Workers at a factory. (Photo: VNA) 
