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 5 areas, including: transportation; wholesale markets, traditional markets, supermarkets, shopping malls; tourism; food service businesses; preschools and general education facilities. The remaining 2 sets of criteria will be issued by the city before April 30.
Each set of criteria has 10 component indicators, each criterion is scored on a 10-point scale. The higher the score, the greater the level of safety.
For the tourism industry, the criteria set is divided into 3 groups applicable to tourist accommodation establishments, travel businesses and tourist attractions.
For the tourism industry, the criteria are divided into 3 groups applicable to tourist accommodation establishments, travel businesses and tourist attractions. In particular, the important criteria for each group are that travel businesses must take measures to grasp health information and medical declaration status of passengers according to regulations; accommodation establishments must ensure hygiene and disinfection at the accommodation establishments, ensure a minimum safe distance of 2m and arrange rooms for guests; tourist attractions must ensure disinfection for passengers, disinfection of objects and surfaces at the attractions, and check the body temperature of visitors.
Accordingly, travel agencies with 100% safety criteria are allowed to operate normally. Units with criteria from 80% to less than 100% are allowed to operate if no component index is below 5 points and are checked for the ability to complete the criteria after 7 days from the assessment date.
Units with low safety levels, from 50% to less than 80%, must have solutions to ensure safety before they can operate. And businesses with safety criteria below 50% are not allowed to operate.
The criteria were issued with the aim of allowing people to resume activities while still living safely with the epidemic.
Previously, at the online meeting between the Government Standing Committee and localities on the afternoon of April 22, Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong said that to minimize the impact of the epidemic, in addition to the set of indicators to assess business risks deployed since April 6, Ho Chi Minh City continued to build 7 sets of indicators to control the epidemic associated with economic development in the new normal conditions.
Specifically, the safety index for the following areas: schools, culture - sports, transportation, tourism, industry and trade, food safety and hygiene, and public areas.
