PM urges curbing of COVID-19 in Bac Ninh, Bac Giang provinces
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has urged ministries, agencies, and localities to take more drastic action to drive back the COVID-19 pandemic in northern Bac Ninh and Bac Giang provinces while ensuring production and trade are not disrupted.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA)🤪 - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has urgedministries, agencies, and localities to take more drastic action to drive backthe COVID-19 pandemic in northern Bac Ninh and Bac Giang provinces while ensuring productionand trade are not disrupted.
During an online meeting on May 26 with leaders of the twoprovinces, where the pandemic is spreading in industrial parks (IPs), the PMdirected agencies to work with Bac Ninh and Bac Giang to increase testing capacity,especially in quarantined areas, use technology, as requested by the Ministry ofInformation and Communications, seriously follow the “5K vaccine” message, andtighten exits and entries. He asked for the upgrading of infrastructure and treatment capacity andthe provision of more medical supplies for the two provinces to cope with thepandemic, particularly vaccines, and the consideration of quarantine for “F1”cases in households, factories, and enterprises. The PM reminded ministries and agencies to work closely together to buildthe COVID-19 response fund, step up access to vaccines for the vaccinationrollout, tighten the management of entries, exits and residency, outline safeand effective production, trade, and goods transportation procedures, andtackle difficulties in financial procedures to support residents and businesseshit by the pandemic. Participants suggested imposing lockdowns and social distancing measuresin more areas in the two provinces, closely monitoring quarantine, acceleratingtesting on a large scale, and prioritising vaccinations for workers in localIPs./.
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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA) 
