Ho Chi Minh City is separated from the whole city for 15 days from 0h 9/7

On the evening of 7/7, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City held a meeting to announce a number of important directives on the fight against COVID-19 in the near future. Accordingly, Ho Chi Minh City will apply Directive 16 throughout the city from 0:00 on July 9, applying for 15 days. People can still leave the house in case of necessity: buy food, medicine, perform official duties.

At the meeting, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong said that Ho Chi Minh City decided to apply Directive 16 across the city from 0:00 on July 9, applying for 15 days. Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phong emphasized that it is necessary to consider the fight against the epidemic as a battle, ensuring the health and safety of people's lives first.

Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee said that the number of Covid-19 infections in the city is increasing rapidly, but the city's resources are still guaranteed, so the city recommends that people do not need to hoard goods, do not gather in large numbers at supermarkets. traditional market.

Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee urged the people of the city to trust and join hands with the city's leaders during the 15 days of social distancing in accordance with Directive 16. Promoting the spirit of each citizen as a soldier, each family as a soldier. anti-epidemic fortress. At the same time, support and sympathy when Ho Chi Minh City applies social distancing.

In that spirit, the city requires departments - branches, districts - to actively prepare the following contents: Regarding leadership and direction: take advantage of the time of social distancing according to Directive No. 16 of the Prime Minister The Government to drastically implement and tighten epidemic prevention and control solutions to achieve the highest results; clearly inform the people that production facilities, service establishments and essential goods will continue to operate normally. Ask everyone to stay at home, only going out in cases of real necessity such as buying food, food, medicine, emergency, working at factories, workshops, factories and other necessary cases. .

Strengthening the role of the Steering Committee for epidemic prevention and control of districts, Thu Duc city in disease control. About goods: Currently, the city has suspended the operation of 3 wholesale markets (Hoc Mon, Binh Dien, Thu Duc) and a number of traditional markets to ensure the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, but the supply chain of goods of The city remains stable. The Department of Industry and Trade was assigned to promote the organization of the following activities: Increase the quantity of goods supplied by modern distribution systems (large and key distribution systems such as Saigon Co.op, Satra, Bach Hoa Xanh, etc.). .), increasing the storage and sales capacity to 120,000 tons/month. Saigon Co.op alone has a reserve of 26,000 tons/month. Organizing the activation of the market stabilization program, ensuring the supply of goods at the right price for the people. Increasing online shopping solutions of 17 supermarkets and large distribution systems; and at the same time organize supplementary selling points, go to the market on behalf of people in difficult circumstances who cannot use phones to order and shop online.

Regarding transportation activities: assign the Department of Transport to prepare to organize the implementation of road and waterway transport activities in the city as follows: suspending public passenger transport by car, except cases of transporting officials, managers, experts, workers... and a number of taxi vehicles transporting people to and from hospitals and medical centers in urgent cases. At the same time, temporarily suspending the operation of two-wheeled passenger vehicles using software application technology to connect with passengers and traditional two-wheelers (motorcycle taxis) to transport passengers.

Coordinate with the Department of Transport of the provinces in the region in organizing traffic to create favorable conditions for the means of transporting goods to be continuous and smooth. Actively work to propose the Ministry of Transport to consider restricting or suspending aviation and railway activities to and from Ho Chi Minh City and unifying requirements for foreign and domestic ships. Local, inland watercraft entering and leaving the seaport of Ho Chi Minh City, all captains and crew members are required to have a negative SARS-COV-2 test paper one day before the departure date and not be allowed to disembark.

Previously, from 0:00 on May 31, Ho Chi Minh City implemented the distance according to Directive 15 of the Prime Minister within 15 days, only Go Vap and Thanh Loc wards, District 12 implemented the distance according to Directive 16.

But because Ho Chi Minh City appeared many chains of infection in the community, on June 14, Chairman of the City People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong continued to direct the social distancing in the whole area of Ho Chi Minh City according to Directive 15 for an additional 2 weeks, from 0 hours on June 15 to 0:00 on June 29.

On June 19, the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City issued Directive 10 on tightening and strengthening measures to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic in Ho Chi Minh City; suspending spontaneous markets, stopping public passenger transport... so far.

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