The Prime Minister issues the Directive No. 05/CT-TTg on the prevention and control of acute respiratory infections caused by new strains of novel Coronavirus on January 28, 2020.
Accordingly, to prevent the epidemic, the Prime Minister requires the Ministry of Transport to suspend permission for flights from Vietnam to epidemic infected areas of China and cease all the flights from epidemic infected areas to Vietnam; implement the recommendations and warning on prevention and control of passengers on transport vehicles; consider implementation of disease prevention on flights and passenger vehicles...
In addition, the Prime Minister also assign to the Ministry of Health to continue to command guide the supervision, thorough isolation and monitoring of cases of contact with people suspected of infection; timely information on epidemic situation, making recommendations on disease prevention measures. Besides, the Ministry of Health also needs to complete a scenario to respond to epidemics before January 30, 2020 and ensure medicines and equipment for epidemic prevention and control as well as coordinating in isolation of workers when infected or suspected of being infected...