Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh at the meeting (Photo: VNA)

The Deputy Prime Minister also ordered effective implementation of a large-scale health screening and vaccination drive. The city has to arrange goods distribution to ensure the supply of necessities serving locals during the period of tightened pandemic prevention measures.

On the same day, Binh attended a ceremony to receive 279 billion VND (12.17 million USD) worth of donations from 23 organisations, businesses, and individuals to the municipal Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee and the committee for the mobilisation, receipt and distribution of the city's COVID-19 prevention and control fund.As of 12pm on July, HCM City had recorded 5,187 COVID-19 cases.