Mr Luong Nguyen Minh Triet, the Deputy Secretary of the Da Nang Party Committee and Chairman of the municipal People's Council on Thursday afternoon called on the health agency and relevant units to strengthen contact tracing, active case finding, isolation, cluster investigation, and testing at all levels in efforts to break the chains of COVID-19 transmission following a spike in community cases.

Municipal Party Committee Deputy Secretary Luong Nguyen Minh Triet (left) delivered his address at the Thursday meeting to discuss rising cases of COVID-19. Photo: PHAN CHUNG

Deputy Secretary demanded district authorities to promote the use of all channels available, including the switchboard 1022, for publicizing the city’s new restrictions in a bid to strongly encourage each individual in the city to take action to keep themselves and others safe and healthy.

Da Nang People's Committee Chairman Le Trung Chinh urged community COVID-19 task force to uphold their role in enhancing surveillance advisory, monitoring and preventing the spread of the virus. The heed should be paid on strengthening COVID-19 regulations in all managed isolation sites for the primary close contacts and returnees from COVID-19 affected areas.

Chairman Chinh also called for stricter enforcement of and adherence to existing public health measures across the city in efforts to tackle rising cases.

During the night of July 20 and early morning of July 21, 3,401 fishermen, traders, drivers, and workers in the Tho Quang Fishing Wharf and Seafood Wholesale Market got rapid tests for COVID-19, and two of them found positive.

The authority of the Tho Quang Fishing Wharf and Seafood Wholesale Market is working with relevant units to conduct stricter monitoring to make sure that everyone in this venue is sticking to the 5K recommendations of the Ministry of Health or face hash penalties for non-compliance. Healthcare workers in Son Tra District will conduct COVID-19 testing for all people in this high-risk setting every 3 days in accordance with the guidelines from the Da Nang government to control the spread of the virus.

Reporting by PHAN CHUNG- HOANG HIEP – translating by H.L