According to the Ministry of Health, after Tet, a new variant will appear, the city needs to proactively plan to prevent the spread of disease, especially paying attention to the work at the airport.
Theo VietNamPlusHo Chi Minh City has done very well in the prevention and control of COVID-19 during the Lunar New Year holiday.
However, after the New Year, the possibility that new variants will appear, the city needs to proactively plan to prevent the spread of the disease.
Dr. Nguyen Vu Thuong, Deputy Director of the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, representative of the Mission of the Ministry of Health, acknowledged that the risk of introducing new variants into the community is still very large.
The World Health Organization still considers COVID-19 a global emergency, of which the most worrying are new strains that may be resistant to vaccines and treatment. The city needs to have strong recommendations at tourist spots and temples for people to wear masks to prevent the spread of the disease. The city’s Department of Health needs to have a proactive plan for prevention by propagating people to vaccinate.
At Tan Son Nhat airport, after checking the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic, the representative of the delegation commented that the implementation of 2K+ at the airport can only meet 1K of masks, disinfection still remains. missing.
Specifically, the counters coming to work such as: connecting counters, counters selling sim cards, on-site visas, etc., do not have disinfecting water. Therefore, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health needs to work with the Quarantine Department at the airport to supplement.
Quarantine staff and control staff at international border gates are the people who have the most contact with customers. In fact, there are still people who have not received the second dose (dose 4) of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The above is the conclusion of the representative of the delegation of the Ministry of Health at the inspection of the prevention and control of the COVID-19 epidemic in the city on January 31. The monitoring team of the Ministry of Health inspected disease prevention activities during the Lunar New Year and the 2023 festive season at a number of locations in Ho Chi Minh City, including: Tan Son Nhat airport, District 3 Medical Center, Tropical disease hospital.
Ho Chi Minh City applies to culture the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Photo: Internet
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Explaining more, the leader of the HCM City Department of Health said that when the SAR-CoV-2 virus is cultured, the immune assessment will be better. In the past time, the study to evaluate the community immunity in Ho Chi Minh City is mainly based on antibody concentration and using a number of techniques to replace the neutralization reaction. The neutralization reaction is the most accurate response to assess protective antibodies, but to do so, live virus must be mixed with serum.