On the morning of September 25, at the online meeting of the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control with localities, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long presented the draft temporary guidance on Adapting safely, flexibly, and controlling

Accordingly, in addition to the vaccination rate, the remaining two indicators are all commune, ward and town health stations with medical oxygen and plans to set up mobile health stations as well as a Covid-19 care team.

The guidelines aim at two goals: minimizing infections and deaths due to Covid-19;

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long spoke at the online meeting of the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control with localities, on the morning of September 25.

According to the instructions, there are four levels of epidemic risk and corresponding response measures, including: Level 1 (low risk – new normal), blue;

The disease risk assessment index is based on a number of criteria such as the number of infections per week per 100,000 people;

The epidemic risk assessment is carried out by the locality on a weekly basis to change the epidemic prevention status accordingly.

Measures considered for application according to each epidemic level, for agencies and organizations include: Number of people gathering outdoors and indoors;

Measures for people include: Compliance with 5K;

The Ministry of Health regulates the circulation and transportation of goods within provinces or between provinces to operate at all four levels.

Cooperatives and households producing and doing business in the fields of agriculture, forestry and fishery;

`The increase or decrease in the epidemic level must not be sudden, it must be done in 72 hours,` Mr. Long noted and affirmed that this `is an important document, adjusting the entire strategy and methods to respond to Covid

According to Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, the instructions need to fully update the epidemic situation across the country as well as be proactive in the source of testing biological products and treatment drugs… `The level of epidemic in localities is very different

`We must prevent new outbreaks from appearing in many localities. If we don’t stamp them out early, it will go out of control. Therefore, places that are not yet severely affected must strengthen screening of high-risk areas.`

Regarding the PC-Covid application being built, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Huy Dung said it will have the following main functions: Issuing and managing individual and location QR codes;

Vietnam currently has about 12 Covid-19 prevention applications, including locally developed applications that have not yet linked data, so `they are not as effective as expected`.

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