Despite the low infection rate, Vietnam is strengthening surveillance against Covid-19

Given the potential risks of new disease outbreaks, the Ministry of Health urged local authorities to strengthen supervision and control tasks for early detection of possible suspected cases.

According to the health warning, the authorities will step up surveillance in communities and medical examinations, and local governments will cooperate with institutions that have the capacity to detect and identify new variants, take samples and investigate, as well as assess disease risks.

In the past three days, the number of new cases of Covid-19 reported by the Ministry of Health has maintained a declining trend: on Friday 55 infections were diagnosed, on Saturday 26 cases were counted, and on the previous day only 22.

The total number of infected people in Vietnam since the pandemic began is now 11,526,140, ​​of which 10,612,105 have been able to recover from the disease.

Covid-19 has caused the death of 43,186 citizens of this Indochina country, which is 0.4 percent of the total number of patients.

In recent statements made here, WHO representative Angela Pratt alerted to the emergence of the threatened XBB strain of Omicron, which has so far been detected in more than 10 countries in the region, including Vietnam.

However, Pratt considered that although new cases are being recorded daily in this Indochina country, there are no indications that hospitals and medical services are overburdened with SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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