(HBO) – When switching from a zero COVID-19 approach to safe and flexible adaptation to and effective control of the pandemic, the role of community-based COVID-19 teams needs to keep improving.

Members of a community-based COVID-19 team in Muong
Voi street, Vu Ban township, Lac Son district check on health conditions of
local residents and remind them to file in health declarations when they show
symptoms suspected to be of COVID-19.
Daily tasks of the team include reminding residents to
seriously follow the "5K” message, regularly inspecting and handing down fines
on those violating anti-pandemic regulations such as failing to wear masks when
going out, and helping medical agencies track down people in contact with
infected persons.
Vice Chairman of the district People’s Committee Bui Van
Duong said the locality maintains 520 community-based COVID-19 teams with 2,196
members. They are the so-called extended arms of competent agencies in pandemic
prevention and control, such as discovering and monitoring people arriving from
other localities and those under quarantine in the locality. They also
mobilised the active involvement of the public and became a key force in the
effort.
Head of the city's health care office Bui Quoc Vuong said
the teams issue COVID-19 bulletins twice or thrice per day, play a key in
tracing down suspected infection cases, and assist families in buying
necessities while they are under quarantine.
The teams, comprising secretaries of Party cells, heads of
villages, public security and health care staff, and members of organisations
such as the youth union, war war
veterans' association, and elderly association, visit each household to remind
them about pandemic prevention and control measures, and immediately report
suspected infection cases to medical stations for timely testing and
quarantine, as well as illegal entries and violators of prevention and control
regulations./.
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