Dispatch No. 8095/SYT-NVY dated November 1st, 2021 of the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh city regarding provisional guidelines on controlling COVID-19 epidemic in manufacturing facilities, business entities, and industrial parks

These are the provisional guidelines on controlling COVID-19 epidemic in manufacturing facilities, business entities, and industrial parks in Ho Chi MinhC city in the new stage, including:

1. Procedures for handling persons infected with COVID-19 in manufacturing facilities and business entities (Annex 1)

2. Local medical teams in COVID-19 epidemic management (Annex 2)

3. Commitment for implementation of COVID-19 epidemic management with supervisory entities (Annex 3):

Accordingly, enterprises must establish medical teams or hire public/private medical entities to supervise the implementation of Covid-19 safety measures in business and production activities.

For workers, they are required to receive sufficient doses of COVID-19 vaccine or receive at least 1 dose of COVID-19 vaccine and are included in vaccination plan for the second dose. They must comply with 5K and maintain a minimum distance of 1 m throughout working process.

All workers, partners, customers, when reaching enterprises for work, professional matters, must perform medical declaration and measure body temperature prior to entering the enterprises.

Enterprises have to organize random SARS-CoV-2 test for individuals facing high risk of COVID-19 infection according to specific guidelines of the medical sector. Upon detecting individuals tested positive to SARS-CoV-2, the medical team shall implement F0 handling procedures according to guidelines of medical sector at Annex 1 and immediately inform local medical center and Center for Disease Control of the City.