Ho Chi Minh City to roll out digital isolation management system

Ho Chi Minh City and Thu Duc City applied online medical isolation management system from July 7

The departments of Information and Communications and Health of Ho Chi Minh City, the city Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, and Viettel had an online meeting on July 11 to agree on implementation plans to launch the online medical isolation management system in Thu Duc City andHo Chi Minh City.

The system will help Ho Chi Minh City manage those isolated at home, helping to monitor compliance with the isolation policies of the Ministry of Health and support people in isolation to timely and proactively reporting their health status.

The system will be deployed on the current infrastructure of tokhaiyte.vn, Vietnam's health declaration website and mobile application. The system will offer features of face recognition and location sharing through smartphones after registering the phone number of isolated people.

Isolated people will need to submit medical declarations three times a day through the app and immediately report any health issues such as fever, coughing, or difficulty breathing. This will enable medical staff monitoring quarantined people to give them a health check and ensure compliance with pandemic prevention measures.

The software is expected to be put into use on July 17 throughout Ho Chi Minh City.

According to the Ministry of Health, home isolation helps reduce cross-infection and ensure the safety of the community and F1 people alike.

In addition, the city is conducting the assessment of epidemiological areas and risk zoning to organise the collection of samples for COVID-19 testing so that it can decide which areas need to be locked down or undergo large-scale screening.

At the same time, the city will also conduct daily infection risk assessment at production and business establishments, export processing zones, industrial zones, and high-tech parks. Besides, it is also increasing the number of enterprises producing under quarantine, while clamping down on businesses failing to comply with pandemic prevention regulations.

15 days of social distancing were ordered under Directive No.16/CT-TTg to control the pandemic spread, trace, and separate F0 patients from the community with the top priority of protecting the lives of people.