In his remarks on a meeting on Friday afternoon to discuss next steps in the fight against COVID-19, Da Nang Party Committee Deputy Secretary Luong Nguyen Minh Triet demanded functional bodies to maintain and expand sustained actions to curb the spread of the virus, with a focus on increasing the effectiveness of checkpoints’activities at entrance points to the city in a bid to enhance surveillance of all arrivals.

Municipal Party Committee Deputy Secretary Luong Nguyen Minh Triet (left) delivers his address at the Friday meeting. Photo: PHAN CHUNG

Mr Triet stressed the need for relevant agencies to provide new guidance on the city’s COVID-19 regulations for arrivals from nationwide localities, including areas affected by the pandemic or under tight coronavirus restrictions, in order to ensure strict compliance of COVID-19 rules among arrivals to stop the spread of the virus.

Deputy Secretary Triet also directed officials to accelerate the development of online application for health declaration, and it should be available soonest for the public to declare their status in the app. The heed must be paid on requiring business owners to ensure strict compliance of mandatory health declaration requirements among their employees.

Municipal People's Committee Chairman Le Trung Chinh asked functional forces to enforce COVID-19 quarantine regulations on arrivals in the city and roll out COVID-19 testing programme for workers outside the city’s industrial parks.

The city leader also urged the public across the city to remain on high alert and strictly adhere to COVID-19 rules.

Municipal Department of Health Director Ngo Thi Kim Yen said tests on candidates sitting for the upcoming 10^th-grade entrance exams for the 2021-2022 school year and personnel staffing at exam venues for the virus will be conducted on June 13, and their test results will be ready one day later, on June 14.

“Special attention must be given to enforcing COVID-19 rules on all drivers of vehicles carrying goods from affected areas at entrance points to Da Nang. They must show a paper or electronic copy of their negative test results within 48 hours or 72 hours of testing upon arrival in the city. In addition, they must be accompanied by functional forces when entering the city as precautions to control COVID-19. In particular, COVID-19 testing order must be issued for drivers who show such symptoms as fever and cough." said doctor Ngo Thi Kim Yen.

Reporting by PHAN CHUNG – Translating by H.L