20% OF EMPLOYEES IN INDUSTRIAL PARKS SHALL BE RANDOMLY TESTED FOR COVID-19
This content is prescribed in the Official Dispatch No. 4352/BYT-MT dated May 28, 2021 of the Ministry of Health, guiding the quarantine and testing in industrial parks and factories.
In accordance with this Official Dispatch, production and business establishments and industrial parks are required to organize SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests on a weekly basis for involved subjects and report results to the provincial-level Departments of Health. Those who are required to be tested on a weekly basis include: All employees participating in providing services for production and business establishments in industrial parks such as catering, hotel and accommodation services for experts, transportation of materials and goods, repair and maintenance of machinery, etc.; 20% of employees in production and business establishments, industrial parks, and bedsits of at-risk employees shall be randomly tested.
Vehicles used to transport employees must meet requirements on pandemic prevention and control, including social distancing (using less than 50% of transport capacity), opening windows (if any) and limiting the use of air conditioners, cleaning and disinfecting vehicles after each trip and implementing 5K rules.
Also, the pilot implementation of centralized quarantine shall be applied for Bac Ninh and Bac Giang provinces as follows: When the number of F1 cases exceeds the local quarantine capacity, a centralized quarantine institution (lockdown area) may be applied in the area or location where a large number of F1 employees stay (dormitories, bedsits with a large number of employees), etc.
