Thousands of local people undergo COVID-19 testing in HCM City

Wednesday, 12:37, 30/06/2021

VOV.VN - Roughly 20,000 residents of Phu Tho Hoa ward in Tan Phu district of Ho Chi Minh City had their samples taken as part of COVID-19 testing on June 29, with the aim of testing five million people in all districts by July 5.

thousands of local people undergo covid-19 testing in hcm city picture 1 — Local people in Phu Tho Hoa ward are informed of the need to have samples taken in two schools.

thousands of local people undergo covid-19 testing in hcm city picture 2 — Residents form a long queue as they wait to undergo COVID-19 screening.

thousands of local people undergo covid-19 testing in hcm city picture 3 — Each person is requested to closely follow the Health Ministry’s 5K message, including maintaining a safe distance as a means of curbing the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

thousands of local people undergo covid-19 testing in hcm city picture 4 — Healthcare workers begin the process of taking samples from 8:30 a.m. on June 29. Long queues remain in front of Le Anh Xuan high school at 11 a.m. for COVID-19 tests.

thousands of local people undergo covid-19 testing in hcm city picture 5

thousands of local people undergo covid-19 testing in hcm city picture 6 — All local people in Phu Tho Hoa ward are requested to head for a COVID-19 screening.

thousands of local people undergo covid-19 testing in hcm city picture 7 — The authorities of Ho Chi Minh City plan to conduct large-scale COVID-19 testing on five million people across all districts by July 5, with the primary aim to detect infections and avoid potential outbreaks within the community.

thousands of local people undergo covid-19 testing in hcm city picture 8 — The southern city will collect around 500,000 samples a day as part of the mass testing, according to details given by Ho Chi Minh City’s Center for Disease Control (HCDC).

thousands of local people undergo covid-19 testing in hcm city picture 9

thousands of local people undergo covid-19 testing in hcm city picture 10 — Each person is required to fill in forms with their individual information in order to serve tracing if any infection case is detected.

thousands of local people undergo covid-19 testing in hcm city picture 11

thousands of local people undergo covid-19 testing in hcm city picture 12

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