On August 19, medical staff in Thanh Khe District, Da Nang City, went to alleys on Le Duan Street to collect samples for Covid-19 testing.

Taking samples on site is to limit people's movement and prevent mass gatherings.

Da Nang medical staff go to every alley to take samples from local people.

Each household chooses a representative for testing. People take with them a "test request form" to submit to medical staff before samples are taken.

At alley 309 on Le Duan Street on August 19 morning. People sit on chairs, 2m from each other, waiting for their turn.

Any household that does not send their representatives to take samples, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Kim Thanh, head of Group 15, Tan Chinh Ward, will go to their houses to remind them.

The People's Committee of Chinh Gian ward, Thanh Khe district, chose a school with a large yard and many big trees, located inside a residential area, as the site for collecting samples.

The ward’s vice chair Ngo Chinh Cong said that to ensure social distancing, local people are divided into small groups to take samples at different times.

They are guided by medical staff and volunteers to enter the site in a separate way and not touch the chairs. After each test, medical staff disinfect all chairs.

In other districts in Da Nang, health workers also go to alleys to take samples.

From 8 a.m. on August 16 to 8 a.m. on August 23, Da Nang stops all activities in the city. People are not allowed to leave their homes and places of residence.

Taking advantage of this "golden time", Da Nang will focus on taking samples for testing for Covid-19 in high-risk areas and from representatives of 100% of the city's households, to trace and separate F0 cases from the community.

Through large-scale testing campaign, which started on August 16, Da Nang has detected 52 positive cases in the community.

On August 19, Da Nang launched its vaccination campaign for 41,000 local residents.

The 54,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine have been allocated by the Ministry of Health and will be divided into two stages. During the initial stage, a total of 35,000 doses will be administered.

The municipal Department of Health is expected to deliver a total of 41,000 vaccine doses to local people, including 25,000 citizens who will be receiving their second shots.

The remaining vaccine doses will be administered to high-risk workers who are employed at industrial parks in Lien Chieu district, all of whom have yet to receive their first shot of the vaccine.

Market traders, security guards, and on-duty people stationed at quarantine checkpoints, along with COVID-19 control forces and garbage collectors, will also be inoculated.

The central city has established a total of 55 vaccination points along with two mobile stations to serve local residents in isolation areas.

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