February 05, 2020 | 18:15 (GMT+7)
HCMC takes heed to coronavirus prevention dissemination
In an online meeting with 24 districts in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday, Chairwoman of Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in HCMC To Thi Bich Chau ordered the Women Union, the Labor Union, and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union to disseminate information of coronavirus prevention to people in markets, commercial centers, dorms and schools.
On the same day, the Department of Tourism and the Department of Health once again convened a meeting on preventive measures. Tourism Department Director Bui Ta Hoang Vu reminded travel agents not to take travelers to coronavirus-hit areas as well as receive those from affected areas to HCMC.
The Department is considering to set up a facility near Tan Son Nhat Airport to temporarily quarantine ill travelers. Head of the Department of Health’s Pharmaceutical Ward Do Van Dung said the department has set up 26 teams which will quickly respond to the disease in the community.
The health sector will also prepare enough medicine and medical equipment to fight the disease.
Ms. Pham Thi Thuy Hang from the People’s Committee in District 3 yesterday also said the district has established an isolation house in Tran Quang Dieu Street according to requirements by the city authorities that each district must have its own place to quarantine suspect people.
Source: Sggpnews