Tracing and testing for Covid-19 must be fast and faster

On the morning of July 12, a delegation of provincial leaders, including Nguyen Van Loi, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Van Loc, member of provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of provincial Party Committee’s Mass Mobilization Commission, Chairman of provincial Fatherland Front Committee; Nguyen Loc Ha, member of provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice-Chairman of provincial People's Committee together with leaders of provincial Department of Health, Department of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Health's Covid-19 prevention and control support group in the province had a meeting with provincial Center for Disease Control (CDC) to check and learn about epidemiological investigation, sampling for Covid-19 testing.

Nguyen Van Loi, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of provincial Party Committee; speaks at the meeting with provincial CDC

After hearing leader of provincial CDC and delegates to report on the local situation of the pandemic, epidemiological investigation, tracing, testing capacity, medical equipment, etc., Mr. Loi asked the local health sector and provincial CDC to focus resources on epidemiological investigation and sampling for testing that must be "fast and faster". This will help the province quickly localize and stamp out the pandemic effectively. He also suggested relevant units to pay attention to coordination in epidemiological investigation and tracing for F1 cases. When making contạct tracing, the health sector must ensure samples from subjects to be taken immediately while taking measures to isolate F1 cases early to prevent and avoid the risk of infection in the community. Provincial CDC needs to focus on epidemiological investigation, large-scale tracing and rapid testing. Especially, provincial CDC need to organize vehicles and mobile squads that can regularly deploy rapid sampling for testing in a professional manner, reducing troubles for people. In the fight against the pandemic, it is absolutely forbidden to "say no, say difficulty, say lack". The local health sector must be flexible with the local real situation, uphold the role of community anit-Covid groups in actively supporting epidemiological investigation and tracing to conduct rapid testing. The local health sector needs to quickly establish more mobile teams for Covid-19 testing to support units amid the complicated developmens of the pandemic; ensure rapid epidemiological investigation, sampling and testing of suspected cases, thereby aiming to quickly detect, localize, and trace quickly and absolutely; strengthen surveillance and early detection to quickly track down related cases. As for medical equipment and testing machines, the province will call for social resources to promptly meet the local requirements in pandemic prevention and control.

*On the morning of the same day, the delegation visited and encouraged Hanoi Medical University’s lecturers and students who have given support for Binh Duong in the fight against the pandemic, including making epidemiological investigation, tracing and taking samples for testing on a large scale for people in the province.

On behalf of provincial leaders and people from all strata, Mr. Loi expressed his thanks to these medical lecturers and students who are joining hands with the local forces in the fight against the pandemic, bringing back a normal life to people.

Reported by Minh Duy-Translated by K.T