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Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long (Photo: Vietnamnet)

“We are highly concerned that Vietnam is expecting the 4th wave of infection, which is high-risk and could break out anytime as the pandemic is still complicated in certain localities”, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long stated at the conference that connects all medical facilities and vaccination sites in over 700 localities across the country.

According to Long, Vietnam has successfully contained 3 waves. The latest one in Hai Duong province with high initial infection rate, however, still has new cases scattered here in there due to relaxed quarantine and contact tracing measures in certain places.

Vietnam has so far set up 1,600 checkpoints, dispatching 10,000 border guards to coordinate with local authorities to manage immigration. However, its long and wide borderline has made it more difficult to put trespass under control.

Vietnam on March 26 morning recorded two Vietnamese illegal entrants who are diagnosed with COVID-19. Both of them, 25, got back to Vietnam from Cambodia on a fishing vessel that arrived in Phu Quoc Island on Monday.

The Health Ministry has listed them as community cases and issued urgent announcement looking for people having visited places those women have come to as well as passengers on the flight they had onboard.

Following the illegal entrances that break the streak of 42 clean days for Ho Chi Minh city and 34 clean days for Hai Phong City, the Health Ministry calls for localities to implement drastic epidemic prevention measures.

Vinmec Hai Phong International Hospital in northern Hai Phong City is isolated late March 25, 2021 after a woman visiting the hospital was diagnosed with Covid-19. (Photo: VNE)

“We must respond as quickly as possible to lessen the impact of the pandemic on the community. Thorough preparation makes us more confident in the fight against COVID-19”, Long was quoted by VNE.

At the conference, the Minister once again spoke highly of the entire healthcare system, “the white-blouse soldiers who risk their lives in the COVID-19 battle”. Vietnam’s success in COVID-19 containment has the medical personnel’s great contribution to thank for.

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