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On the evening of April 23, Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Le Thanh Liem signed and issued a series of criteria for assessing safety in COVID-19 prevention and control for five sectors, including: transportation; wholesale markets, traditional markets, supermarkets, and shopping malls; tourism; food and beverage service businesses; and preschool and primary education institutions. The remaining two sets of criteria will be issued by the city before April 30.
Each set of criteria has 10 component indicators, with each criterion scored on a 10-point scale. The higher the score, the greater the level of safety.
For the tourism industry, the criteria are divided into three groups applicable to tourist accommodation establishments, travel agencies, and tourist attractions.
For the tourism industry, the criteria are divided into three groups applicable to tourist accommodation establishments, travel agencies, and tourist attractions. Key criteria for each group include: travel agencies must implement measures to obtain health information and medical declarations from passengers as required; accommodation establishments must ensure hygiene and disinfection within their premises, maintain a minimum safe distance of 2 meters, and arrange rooms with adequate spacing for guests; and tourist attractions must ensure disinfection for passengers, disinfect objects and surfaces at the site, and check the body temperature of visitors.
Accordingly, travel businesses that meet 100% of the safety criteria are allowed to operate normally. Units with criteria scores between 80% and less than 100% are allowed to operate if no component indicator is below 5 points and their ability to improve the criteria is checked 7 days after the assessment.
Units with low safety ratings, ranging from 50% to below 80%, must implement corrective measures to ensure safety before being allowed to operate. Businesses with safety criteria below 50% are prohibited from operating.
These guidelines were issued with the aim of enabling people to resume activities while still living safely with the pandemic.
Earlier, at the online briefing between the Standing Committee of the Government and localities on the afternoon of April 22, Chairman of the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh Phong said that to minimize the impact of the epidemic, in addition to the set of indicators to assess business risk already implemented since April 6, Ho Chi Minh City is continuing to develop seven sets of indicators to control the epidemic while developing the economy in the new normal.
Specifically, the safety index covers the following sectors: schools, culture and sports, transportation, tourism, industry and trade, food safety and hygiene, and public areas.
