After Da Nang braced for a second wave of coronavirus infections in late July, members of the Beach Tourism Security Management and the Lifeguard teams under the Management Board of the Son Tra Peninsula and Tourism Beaches have exerted their efforts to fulfil their Covid-19 prevention and control tasks in the city regardless of whether it is during the day or at night.

A checkpoint set up at an entrance way to the Son Tra Peninsula

Head of the Lifeguard Team Nguyen Hong Van said his team members are staffing three shifts around the clock on local beaches. They are responsible for walking along the beaches in order to stop large gatherings, especially supervising seafood trading activities in early mornings, as well as encourage locals to practise the city's social distancing rules.

Mr Van said local residents have had higher level of private self-awareness in practising the city's social distancing rules compared with the city's first social distancing period in April. He remarked that there have been still beach-goers in early mornings but not too many. Most of them have maintained a two metre distance from others and wear face coverings.

Mr Tran Dai Nghia, the Deputy Head of the Management Board of the Son Tra Peninsula and Da Nang Tourism Beaches, said local beaches, especially Tho Quang and Thanh Khe ones, were often crowded with people between 4.30am and 7.00am daily because it was a time when fishing boats started to return to the shore after their night-fishing trips.

Mr Nghia urged the Management Board of the Son Tra Peninsula and Da Nang Tourism Beaches to send more personnel on duty at these beaches in a bid to encourage both fishermen and beachgoers to practise the city's social distancing rules to prevent the spread of the virus.

Mr Nghia said, apart from increasing patrols on beaches,  the Management Board of the Son Tra Peninsula and Da Nang Tourism Beaches is introducing the city's social distancing rules in both Vietnamese and English languages on loudspeakers placed along local beaches.

In addition, four checkpoints have been set up at entrance ways to the Son Tra Peninsular in a bid to prevent from group gatherings at this tourist site. The staff are working around the clock at these checkpoints.

By THU HA - Translated by M.D