Facing with the complicated situation of COVID-19, the well management of concentrated isolation zones and blockade areas is very important in controlling the disease, therefore the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee has just requested:

Chairpersons of People's Committees of districts, towns and city to organize the lessons learned to correct and overcome immediately any shortcoming and limitation. Thoroughly grasping and strictly implementing the directions of the PPC at Dispatch No. 2983/UBND-TH dated 12/8/2021.

For the concentrated isolation zones: to rectify Immediately the management and operation of the concentrated isolation zones; regularly inspecting and supervising the concentrated isolation zones, ensuring the implementation of Decision No. 878/QD-BYT of the Ministry of Health and other directions of the central and provincial governments. At the same time, it is required that the quarantined person must strictly comply with the 5K requirement, the quarantined person can only leave the room in case of absolutely necessary. Reviewing and checking each room to divide the number of people in the room; being ready to activate new concentrated isolation zones to put the newly arising F1 cases into separate area.

For the blockade areas: There must be plans to strengthen the patrol, control and management more closely cases of people going out without a justifiable reason, the gathering of people violating the regulations on social distancing, and the release of animals  leads to the risk of infection in the blockade areas ..; especially for the hard-blocked areas, people are not allowed to leave the house, the provision of food must be conducted to every house, installing cameras with 24/24 supervision. In case of small alleys, connected to many other ones, it is necessary to arrange regular duty forces to minimize the contact in the community, causing the risk of disease transmission. For the cases of deliberately violating regulations on epidemic prevention and control or having been warned many times but still re-committing, they must be severely punished, ensuring the deterrence of the sanction.

The Chairman of the PPC has requested the Department of Health to strengthen its role and responsibilities as the frontline force in epidemic prevention and control. Promoting the implementation of propaganda in many different forms, combining communication on social networks with direct communication in concentrated isolation zones and blockade areas, promptly informing people about messages on COVID-19 epidemic prevention and control as recommended by the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, the Ministry of Health and the province. Thereby, helping people raising awareness, avoiding the mentality of being negligent and subjective in the implementation of measures for epidemic prevention and control.

The units and localities must coordinate uniformly with functional forces in receiving and managing the quarantined people at the concentrated isolation zones and handing over people who have finished isolation period back to their localities for health monitoring in accordance with regulations./.

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