To:

- Departments and authorities of the City;
- People’s Committees of districts and Thu Duc City.

As the epidemic situation in the City is being controlled and most people older than 12 years of age have been vaccinated against COVID-19, the majority of COVID-19 cases who do not fall under any risk category suffer from no or minor symptoms and recover from COVID-19 shortly after.

In order to restrict disruption to daily activities such as: manufacturing and business activities; student’s studying activities; medical coordination, management, and care, etc. due to the fact that F1 cases must be quarantined in accordance with previous regulations; while awaiting new guidelines of Ministry of Health, in order to adapt safely, flexibly, and effectively control COVID-19 situation in the City, considering proposal of Department of Health under Presentation No. 1832/TTr-SYT dated March 21, 2022;

People’s Committee of the City hereby provides guidelines on medical measures to be taken by close contacts (F1 cases), to be specific:

1. F1 cases who have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have recovered from COVID-19 in the last 3 months are allowed to go back to work and go to school as long as they:

- Monitor their health for at least 10 days starting from the last day on which they made contact with a F0 case, conduct (RT-PCR or rapid antigen) SARS-CoV-2 test on the 5^th day and when showing symptoms of COVID-19 infection by themselves or with the help or caregivers or medical personnel or medical facilities. During this period, F1 cases shall move between their residence and workplace and study locations using their private transports.

- Strictly comply with epidemic preventive and control measures such as: wearing facemasks; washing hands; refraining from sharing personal belongings in daily activities, working, and studying.

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2. This document amends medical measures which must be taken by F1 cases in accordance with Section 1 above and have been specified under Official Dispatch No. 548/UBND-VX dated February 22, 2022, Official Dispatch No. 625/UBND-VX dated March 2, 2022 of People’s Committee of the City, Official Dispatch No. 8095/SYT-NVY dated November 1, 2021, and Official Dispatch No. 1474/SYT-NVY dated March 4, 2022 of Department of Health.

Hereby assign departments and authorities of the City, People’s Committees of Thu Duc City and districts to coordinate consistent and synchronous implementation of this document across all of their agencies and affiliated entities until further guidelines are promulgated./.

PP. CHAIRPERSON
DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON




Duong Anh Duc

Công văn 882/UBND-VX năm 2022 hướng dẫn biện pháp y tế đối với người tiếp xúc gần (F1) đi làm, học tập do thành phố Hồ Chí Minh ban hành