Da Nang government will impose the highest level of penalty, in line with the current Vietnamese laws, on those who are found skipping compulsory medical declaration procedures, making fraudulent declarations, and ignoring medical quarantine and testing rules as required.

The law enforcement forces in Da Nang will determine the criminal responsibility of violators if they test positive for SARS-CoV-2.

The aforementioned regulations were emerged on the spotlight of an official dispatch signed by Da Nang People’s Committee Chairman Le Trung Chinh on Tuesday.

This dispatch demands all departments, agencies and district-level authorities, and universities, junior colleges, and vocational training institutions across Da Nang to strictly practise protective measures against COVID-19.

Chairman Chinh demanded that the district-level authorities continue to encourage the general public to declare their heath conditions and ensure that those who have returned to Da Nang from coronavirus-hit locales and now reside in dormitories, worker housing facilities, makeshift tents, construction sites, economic farms, motels, or onboard boats, must be completely detected and mornitored.

Special heed must be paid to detecting and promptly handling any suspicious cases of COVID-19 at the around-the-clock checkpoints set up at entrances to Da Nang for the application of appropriate intervention measures, in a bid to keep coronavirus out of Da Nang. 

All government departments, associations, unions, production and business establishments across the city must ask all of their staffers to complete medical declarations, especially those who have visited or stayed in pandemic-hit locales and already returned to Da Nang for work after the Tet breaks.

Meanwhile, universities, junior colleges, and vocational training establishments in Da Nang should keep a close eye on the practice of compulsory measures against COVID-19 in a strict manner once students come back to school after Tet breaks.

The heads of these educational establishments in Da Nang must take accountability for failing to remind students from pandemic-stricken locales to make medical declarations.

The municipal administration chief also encouraged the public across Da Nang to exceptionally vigilant and highly alert against the deadly coronavirus, and to strictly comply with precautions against the pandemic as well.

By PHAN CHUNG – Translated by A.T