According to the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC), the above test samples were taken from May 26 to present.

Of the 404,717 surveillance test samples, 212,758 samples had negative results, while 191,959 were awaiting results.

From June 5 to noon June 6, the Ministry of Health announced 41 positive cases of nCoV in Ho Chi Minh City.

From May 18 until now, Ho Chi Minh City has recorded 364 Covid-19 cases, currently ranking 4th in the country in the number of community Covid-19 cases during this epidemic.

Since Covid-19 appeared, the city has recorded 630 patients, including immigrants.

The city continues to implement measures to trace, localize and stamp out epidemics, and take samples for urgent testing when receiving information about new cases.

The health sector is implementing the third round of Covid-19 vaccination campaign for groups that have received the first dose.

Ho Chi Minh City continues to organize health declarations for people returning from localities and areas with infected cases and quarantined.

7,770 people are in centralized quarantine, 13,714 cases are in quarantine at home or accommodation.

The health sector expands testing for workers working in export processing zones, industrial parks, and high-risk areas.

To prevent the spread of the epidemic, from May 31, Ho Chi Minh City has implemented social distancing according to Directive 15 throughout the city and Directive 16 in Go Vap district and Thanh Loc ward, District 12, with a total of more than 700,000 people.

HCDC believes that the city may have cases of unknown origin in the community because the disease has spread silently.

According to HCDC, the epidemic situation in the city is under control.

The city has prepared to respond to different epidemic situations.

Currently, 5 polyclinics have temporarily suspended operations due to the discovery of cases that have been examined, including Tran Diep Khanh Polyclinic, Xom Moi, Hoan My Huu Nghi Saigon, Go Vap District and the National Polyclinic.

Tan Phu District Hospital, Saigon South General Hospital temporarily blocked the entire hospital due to discovering that an employee had Covid-19.

Covid-19 control checkpoint on Nguyen Kiem street in Go Vap district, June 3.

Le Phuong