On 8th September 2021, the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City submitted the Proposal No. 6436/TTr-SYT including the detailed action plan on preventing and controlling COVID-19 after 15th September 2021 (“Proposed Action Plan”). Accordingly, the Proposed Action Plan offers 07 strategies to prevent and control the epidemic as follows:
- Full coverage vaccination for all residents living in the city;
- Social distancing associated with the “COVID Green Card”;
- Encouragement of the message “Living healthy in an epidemic environment”;
- Taking care and management of F0 patients in the community;
- Improving treatment effect, reducing mortality from COVID-19;
- Epidemiological surveillance in response to the epidemic; and
- Restoration of the health system to meet the people’s health care demands.
In particular, the social distancing associated with the “COVID Green Card” attracts the public’s attention, including:
- Gradually loosen up on social isolation measures based on risk assessment, epidemiological surveillance data and the health sector’s response ability to restore production and provide essential services, circulate goods;
- Classification of industries and units according to the possibility of occurrence and outbreak of the epidemic, according to safety criteria to gradually restore operations; and
- Using the “COVID green card” that allows people to participate in production and social activities according to the level of epidemic control.
In terms of implementation of Directive 15:
In terms of implementation of Directive 16:
(*) F0 recovered: having been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, expired the quarantine period prescribed by the Ministry of Health (with discharge paper or a completion of the quarantine period certification) within 06 months
(**) Employers arrange work to limit contact with many people.
Proposal No. 6436/TTr-SYT: DOWNLOAD