According to the Provincial Department of Health, on July 18 only, the whole province additionally recorded 130 cases of COVID-19, which there were 56 cases in Bien Hoa City, 16 cases in Trang Dai Ward, mainly related to the outbreak in Chang shin Co., Ltd, Vinh Cuu District had 32 cases, concentrated in Thanh Phu commune 27 cases; Thong Nhat District had 32 cases in 4 communes of Gia Tan 1, Gia Tan 3, Lo 25 and Gia Kiem; Nhon Trach District had 25 cases, scattered in communes of Phu Dong, Phu Huu and Long Tho communes; Long Khanh City had 6 cases.
Updated map of the number of COVID-19 cases in Bien Hoa City
The total number of new positive cases in the fourth outbreak is 1,190, of which: Bien Hoa City has the most with 548 cases, followed by Vinh Cuu District 154, Nhon Trach District 153, and Thong Nhat District 141 cases.
Continue to record many new cases related to the outbreak at Chang shin company, among the people who are traders around the company, cases of F1 and workers in hostels in Thanh Phu Commune, Trang Dai Ward and some other communes and wards. It is predicted that the number of cases related to this outbreak is increasing, and there is a possibility that the infected cases in the company is coming from the workers’ accommodation in this area. Continuing to record new cases in some enterprises in Bien Hoa City, Nhon Trach District is a high risk of new outbreaks in businesses. Recording a few cases of traders and transporters of goods related to Long Khanh Market, the possibility of an outbreak happened at this market where the functional staff put it in investigation.
By quick tests, many new cases were detected scattered in the community in many districts in the province. Thus, the source of infection in the community is quite complicated, the epidemic will continue to develop in the direction of spreading, difficult to control, the number of severe cases will increase, the risk of death will increase also; The rapidly increasing number of new cases puts pressure on the preparation of treatment and isolation areas.
It is recorded that around 20 medical staff at 3 hospitals, 1 medical center and 1 isolation area have been infected with Covid-19, it is predicted that the is not enough the medical staff to deal with all cases once the epidemic widely spread in the community.
The proposal of the Health sector is to continue focusing on rapid tracing in localities related to the outbreak at Chang shin company and other outbreaks; strengthen screening by quick tests in businesses, hostels, and markets; consider strengthening measures to ensure safety and prevent epidemics at businesses, markets and workers’ shelters in the context of high community infection sources and complicated interference between living places and workplaces of workers among enterprises; consider deploying large hospital with many beds to concentrate manpower and equipment in the condition that human resources in the health sector are not crowed enough to deal with the situation; Implement F1 cases isolation right at their homes.
Quoc Khanh
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