Binh Thuan, August 20, 2020

QUICK REPORT

on COVID-19 situation

(updated to 16h00,20/8/2020)

I. COVID-19 SITUATION

According to the report of the Infectious Disease Monitoring System of Ministry of Health, up to 15:00, 20/8/2020, current COVID-19 situation is as follows:

1. In the world

- Total: 22.588.815 cases; 791.090  deaths.

- Countries with high morbidity and mortality rates:

+ USA: 5.701.162 cases, 176.342 deaths;

+ Brazil: 3.460.413 cases, 111.189  deaths;

+ India: 2.841.337 cases, 54.017 deaths;

+ Russia: 937.321 cases, 15.989 deaths;

+ South Africa: 596.060 cases, 12.423 deaths;

- 215 countries, territories have reported confirmed cases of infection.

2. In Vietnam

- Total: 994 cases / 40 provinces, cities, in which:

+ Recovered and discharged: 533 cases.

+ Under treatment: 436 cases.

+ 25 deaths.

3. In Binh Thuan province

Up to now, Binh Thuan province has been recorded for 160 consecutive days without any case of COVID-19 infection.

Currently, the number of cases under centralized quarantine at the treatment faciclities and centralized isolation faciclities is 09 cases, all them are in stable health. In which:

- Quarantined in treatment faciclites: 07 cases.

+ Provincial General Hospital: 01 cases.

+ Tanh Linh Medical Center: 04 cases.

+ Ham Tan Medical Center: 01 cases.

+ Tuy Phong Medical Center: 01 cases.

- Quarantined in centralized isolation facilities: 02 cases. (Ham Thuan Nan Center for Continuing – Vocational Education).

II. DEPLOYMENT OF DISEASE PREVENTION IN BINH THUAN

1. Directions of Central Government, Provincial Party Committee, Provincial People’s Committee, Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

- Official Dispatch no. 4393/BYT-KCB dated 18/8/2020 of the Ministry of Health on strengthening the infection prevention and control of SARS-COV-2 in health treatment facilities.

2. Deployment results from 16:00, 19/8/2020 to now

2.1. Steering works

2.2. Professional works

- Number of test samples taken from 16:00, 19/8/2020 to 16:00, 20/8/2020 is 03 (accumulated 1030 samples).

- Number of test samples taken in the day is 03 with negative results (accumulated 1029 tested samples with negative results).

- Number of people from those provincies and cities recorded infections according to the Ministry of Health to Binh Thuan province from 16:00, 19/8/2020 to 16:00, 20/8/2020 is 17 (accumulated 3.468 cases), and they are all closely monitored and supervised by the heal agencies, in which: 07 cases are quaranted at treament facilites, 02 cases are quaranted at central isolation facilities, 600 cases are quaranted at homes. Currently, 2.859 cases has passed quarantine time.

1.3. Propaganda works

- Continuing to propagate the situation of acute respiratory infections caused by Covid-19 in the entire province on website of the Department of Health, Binh Thuan Health information page, Newspapers, Provincial Radio and Television Station.

- Binh Thuan Radio – Television Station has informed and propagated 4 news and reports on COVID-19 prevention and control in morning, afternoon, evening news on radio and television chanels, namely: updates on COVID-19 situation in the morning and afternoon of 20/8/2020; Stop visiting inpations for prevention of COVID-19; the Provincial People’s Committee to strengthen the propaganda of Bluezone application installation.

- Coordinating with the Provincial Public Security Department to continuously monitor the information on social networks to promply rectify and handle any case of inaccurace, false or untrue information on the epidemic.

- Facebooks of Binh Thuan Propagandation, Binh Thuan Hometown, Binh Thuan Blue Sea, Binh Thuan Information, Youth Union of provincial agencies and enterprises, and other individual facebooks: Information on probaganda of Bluezone application installation; the quick report of test results on 19/8 of Binh Thuan province with 21 negative samples.

2.4. Deployment results of epidemic prevention by departments, agencies, localities and the management of tourists in Binh Thuan

2.4.1. Departments and agencies

- By reviewing the data from the provincial Immigration Department and the tourist accommodation establishments, as of 20/8/2020, Binh Thuan received about 1.800 guests (decreases 100 guests compared to 19/8/2020), including: about 1.130 domestic visitors, 670 international visitors such as Russia: 179, Germany: 12, France: 35, USA: 30, Ukraine: 26, UK: 22.  

- Continuing to review and conduct medical declarations for civil servants, public employees, employees and their families and relatives who have contacted or returned from epidemic areas; and for cases of going back from epidemic areas have made local medical declarations and passed quarantine time in accordance with instructions and regulations.

2.4.2. People’s Committee of districts, towns and cities

- Continue to direct units and localities to strengthen the communication,  and monitoring health at home, conducting medical declaration for cases coming back home from abroad and epidemic areas in order to have timely solutions to avoid spreading the epidemic to the community.

- Continue to direct functional units to strengthen the inspection and examination to prohibit speculation and accumulation of essential goods, medical supplies, strictly handle the speculation, goods hoarding, price increases, causing market instability in accordance with the laws.

III. IDENTIFICATION OF EPIDEMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE COMING TIME

Over 160 days, Binh Thuan province has had no new case (from March 12 to now). However, the epidemic development is still very complicated. Currently, Vietnam has total 994 cases of COVID-19 infection, there are many cases of infection in the community with 25 deaths. Therefore, it is required that we are absolutely  not be subjective, neglected, out of guard, and always ready at the highest level, especially for the forces directly engaged in epidemic prevention and control.

IV. WORKS TO BE CONTINUATED IN THE PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF EPIDEMIC

- Implement strictly Announcement no 300/TB-VPCP dated 14/8/2020 of the Government Office on the Conclusion of Prime Minister - Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the Standing meeting of the Government on COVID-19 prevention and control.

- Implement seriously the Announcement No. 1067/TB-VPTU dated 28/7/2020 of the Provincial Party Committee Office on the Conclusion of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee on urgent direction of measures for COVID-19 prevention and control; Official Dispatch No. 1810-CV/TU dated 30/7/2020 of Binh Thuan Provincial Party Committee on strengthening leadership in Covid-19 prevention and control, and Official Dispatch No. 2983/UBND-KGVXNV dated 07/8/2020 of the Provincial People's Committee on continuing to strengthen measures for COVID-19 prevention and control in the new situation.

- Reviewing and listing of all cases in the area that have ever traveled to Da Nang city and other provinces with epidemic outbreaks to screen and verify at-risk cases for organizing appropriate medical isolation according to the guidance of the National Steering Committee and the Ministry of Health; taking samples for early detection of infected cases to avoid spreading the disease to the community and request all of these cases to conduct immediately the medical declaration for monitoring and updating of health status.

- Focusing on immigration settlement for foreign experts come to work in Binh Thuan province, implementing well the centralized quarantine plan in accordance with the guidance of the Ministry of Health to ensure safety for COVID-19 prevention and control.

                                              DEPUTY HEAD OF COMMITTEE

                                                                    //Signed//

                                     DIRECTOR OF DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

                                                             Nguyen Quoc Viet