Nidec Sankyo Vietnam workers in Saigon Hi-Tech Park in Thu Duc city in HCMC line up for coronavirus tests, July 2021. Photo by VnExpress / An Phuong.
HCMC industrial zones have reported as many as 1,837 cases of Covid-19 in the ongoing wave that hit Vietnam in late April.
Before Ho Chi Minh City entered a 15-day social distancing period with stricter measures on July 9, industrial areas in the city had recorded 1,159 infections.
Since the order was imposed, 678 more cases have been added, Hua Quoc Hung, head of the Export Processing Zone and HCMC Industrial Park Authority (HEPZA), told a city meeting. Thursday.
Saigon Hi-Tech Park in Thu Duc City detected four infections among Nidec Sankyo Vietnam employees on June 28. Since then, the park has recorded 739 cases, including five foreigners.
In the Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone in District 7, health officials reported an employee positive for the novel coronavirus on June 25. So far, more than 400 cases in 50 companies in the area have been detected through mass testing.
In Linh Trung Export Processing Zone 2 in Thu Duc City, Theodore Alexander HCMC Co. Ltd discovered six positive cases on July 2, while mass testing later revealed 161 infections at the company.
On July 13, the city administration demanded that manufacturing companies only continue to operate if they could keep workers at the factory or have them stay in hotels or dormitories instead of making shifts. back and forth between their residence and the factory.
Those who cannot meet these requirements must be suspended from Thursday.
HCMV employs 320,000 workers in export processing zones and a high-tech park, as well as nearly 1.3 million in 17 industrial zones.
The city is now the epicenter of the ongoing wave in Vietnam. As of Friday, he had recorded more than 22,500 cases.
He spent a week under a stricter social distancing order, which does not allow people to leave their homes outside to buy food, seek treatment, or work in businesses that are still allowed to open.
