Ho Chi Minh city continues to conduct extensive screening tests to assess the current risk in the community - Photo: VNA

The Head of the National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control addressed an online meeting with Ho Chi Minh City’s health officials on Wednesday

He said “We should continue our focused testing strategy while keeping tracing and testing of cases, which have close contact with a COVID-19 patient. Screening tests should be done in risk areas. Automated and robotic technology could be used to phone those with symptoms for testing.”

Deputy Prime Minister Dam asked the Ministries of Information and Communications and Science and Technology to support Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces to apply IT in COVID-19 prevention in big enterprises and industrial zones.