Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh convenes an online meeting with anti-COVID-19 forces of Bac Giang and Bac Ninh provinces. Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

During an online meeting on Wednesday with leaders of the two provinces, where the pandemic is spreading in industrial parks (IPs), the Prime Minister directed agencies to work with Bac Giang and Bac Ninh to increase testing capacity, especially in quarantined areas and use technology as requested by the Ministry of Information and Communications.

He asked for the upgrading of infrastructure and treatment capacity and the provision of more medical supplies for the two provinces to cope with the pandemic, particularly vaccines.

Also on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the National Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control, Vu Duc Dam, inspected several quarantine spots in Bac Giang province, where some 6,000 employees may return to work on Thursday after a suspension. He called for a review of experience about quarantine measures in residential areas with large number of workers and called for creative ways to classify those in close contact with COVID-19 cases to enable residential quarantine. 

The Deputy PM said, “We have to be creative in centralized quarantine management with piloted areas as this is our first time to cope with large scale infection area in industrial zones. We could consider quarantine at the community thanks to support from people’ supervision and community anti-COVID teams.”