Ho Chi Minh city extends social distancing by 2 more weeks

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The stop at An Phu Dong iron bridge point from Go Vap district to District 12 and vice versa. Photo: VnExpress

The city-wide social distancing measure means social events are suspended while gatherings of 20 people or more in one place and of 10 people or more outside workplaces, schools and hospitals are banned. A minimum distance of two meters between people in public places should be ensured.

The extension is justified as the coronavirus still lurks inside the community, and a premature lifting of the social distancing order may give it a chance to proliferate further, said director of the Ho Chi Minh city Department of Health Nguyen Tan Binh, cited VnExpress.

A previous two-week social distancing period for the city began on May 31 and was supposed to end on Monday, where a similar ban on social events, gatherings of 20 people or more in one place and of 10 people or more outside workplaces, schools and hospitals was in place. Go Vap District and District 12's Thanh Loc Ward, the center of a major cluster emerging from a Christian mission, underwent a stricter social distancing order, where gatherings of more than two people in public are banned and people are requested to leave home only for emergencies, buying food and medicine, and working in factories, production facilities and businesses that involve "essential" goods and services.

Monday extension means Go Vap and District 12 now apply the same restrictions as other places in the city.

According to Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health Nguyen Tan Binh, the outbreak related to the activities of the Renaissance Mission Church in Go Vap district with nearly 450 infections is basically under control. However, the city is appearing many new infection chains due to the pandemic that has quietly appeared in the community before.

Vehicles are instructed to go around a Covid-19 checkpoint in Go Vap District under HCMC's social distancing order, June 1, 2021. Photo: VnExpress

In particular, the infection chain at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City (the city's Covid-19 treatment facility with 550 beds, nearly 600 employees) was discovered on June 11 when an information technology employee tested positive for nCoV. The hospital has urgently screened, traced, isolated and sampled all medical staff and after two days, the total number of Covid-19 patients here has reached 53 cases.

Ho Chi Minh city Hospital for Tropical Diseases was disinfected by district forces on the afternoon of June 13. Photo: VnExpress

In addition, a number of other outbreaks of unknown origin were detected during screening at hospitals such as: Cu Chi - Hoc Mon mechanical workshop; outbreak at Ehome apartment building, Ho Hoc Lam street, Binh Tan district; outbreak at Road No. 11, Hiep Binh Phuoc ward, Thu Duc city; outbreak in Tan Thoi 2 hamlet, Hoc Mon district.

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