Continuing Strict Quarantine of Entry from Abroad

​Reception of entry from abroad in concentrated isolation area.

Ensuring safety in quarantine area

Recently, 283 Vietnamese citizens returning from Australia have completed a 14-day quarantine at the People’s Police College 2 (An Phuoc Commune, Long Thanh District). This is the 6th medical quarantine for a large numbers of returning from abroad; Thereby bringing the total number of people in concentrated medical isolation in the whole province to over 3.3 thousand.

Deputy Director of Department of Health Nguyen Huu Tai said that although most of the delegations landed at Tan Son Nhat Airport at night or at midnight and arrived in Dong Nai at night or dawn of next day, all related forces have worked urgently and seriously under procedures and regulations on COVID-19 control and prevention.

Deputy Director of Center for Disease Control Tran Minh Hoa, who is on duty at the isolation facility of People’s Police College 2, said, when cars carry people from Tan Son Nhat Airport to the quarantine area, militia and self-defense forces will spray and disinfect vehicles from the outside. After the car enters isolation gate, one by one will step down, be sprayed with disinfectant for whole body, remove clothes, protective shoes, masks, quickly disinfect hands and enter the gathering room. Inside, the Board of Management has arranged seats with distance of 2m/seat, and then medical staff shall proceed to get information about name, address, health status, etc of each. Next, there will be another department bringing the isolators to the quarantine room which suitable for gender and age, etc.

In the quarantine area, each person is given essential items and instructed to strictly implement COVID-19 prevention such as properly dispose of waste, wearing masks, quickly disinfect hands, etc. Twice a day, the medical staff shall take temperature measurement and do health check for isolated people. Quarantine person will be sampled for SARS-CoV-2 test on 1st and 13th of quarantine. Those who test positive for SARS-CoV-2 or have suspicious signs or severe underlying disease will be referred to Dong Nai Lung Hospital for monitoring and treatment.

The good news is that so far there have been no positive cases for SARS-CoV-2 among over 1,600 people who have been quarantined at People’s Police College 2, and 322 are isolated in Dong Nai Regiment. Most of those all strictly abide by regulations on prevention in the quarantine area.

Receiving and quarantining people returning from abroad at People’s Police College 2.

Do not Neglect

Former PPC’s Vice Chairman Nguyen Hoa Hiep, former Deputy Head of Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, emphasized that since Covid-19 appeared in China at the end of 2019, Dong Nai has had plans to prevent its intrusion and spread. Provincial and Department of Health leaders are regularly stay in charge and closely follow current situation for timely guidance to relevant units.

“Dong Nai has taken drastic epidemic prevention measures, one step higher than the whole country. Therefore, despite being close to Ho Chi Minh City and high level of trade, Dong Nai has only recorded 4 positive cases for Covid-19 so far. In which, 01 case was a foreign expert - immediately quarantined right after entering Vietnam, 01 infected from HCMC’s case and 02 from Da Nang City outbreak. Immediately after detecting a positive case, the province urgently zoned, handled and quelled the epidemic, preventing the epidemic from spreading, ensuring the safety of the health and life of the people.” – Mr. Hiep emphasized.

Dong Nai leaders also said in decision-making for hotels & motels to become fee-based concentrated isolation points, they have pondered and carried out many inspections, organized training courses and propaganda for hotels, service staff, people around hotels and motels to understand the epidemics isolation and prevention in order to strictly comply with such regulations. Those facilities that meet all the necessary conditions can deploy centralized isolation, absolutely no sketchy for any reason. In the near future, there will be more foreign experts entering Dong Nai, but its policy is not to open too many hotels and accommodations, it will consider and forecast needs of such experts at each specific time to arrange the appropriate isolation.