According to the draft Proposal for amending the Appendix stipulating the average incubation period and the time for no new cases to be detected for COVID-19, the Ministry of Health has just submitted to the Prime Minister, the incubation period The average illness decreased to 4 days and the time without detecting new cases decreased to 8 days.
Regarding the COVID-19 epidemic, on the morning of September 24, information from the Ministry of Health said that the Ministry had submitted Report No. 1229/TTr-BYT to the Prime Minister on the draft revised Prime Minister’s Decision. The appendix stipulating the average incubation period and the time when no additional cases of infectious disease are detected as a basis for declaring the end of an infectious disease epidemic, issued together with Decision No. 02/2016/QD-TTg dated December 28. January 2016 regulates the conditions for declaring an epidemic and declaring the end of an infectious disease epidemic.
According to the provisions of Decision No. 07/2020/QD-TTg amending and supplementing a number of Articles of Decision No. 02/2016/QD-TTg dated January 28, 2016 of the Prime Minister on stipulating conditions declaring the epidemic, announcing the end of the infectious disease epidemic, the average incubation period of COVID-19 is 14 days and the period of not detecting new cases of COVID-19 is 28 days.
According to the draft Proposal for amending the Appendix stipulating the average incubation period and the time when no new cases of COVID-19 are detected, the Ministry of Health has just submitted to the Prime Minister, the average incubation period. average decreased to 4 days and the time without detecting new COVID-19 cases decreased to 8 days.
This amendment is based on scientific basis; developments of the current COVID-19 epidemic situation; and according to recommendations of the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Also in the Report, the Ministry of Health provided comparative information between the provisions of the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases and the actual developments of the epidemic in Vietnam, showing that COVID-19 no longer meets the criteria for group infectious diseases . A , specifically as follows:
From the beginning of the year to August 31, 2023, 97,628 cases were recorded, with an average monthly record of about 12,000 cases; The average monthly number of cases decreased 12 times compared to 2021 (about 144,000 cases/month) and decreased 68 times compared to 2022 (about 816,000 cases/month). The death rate due to COVID-19 decreased from 1.86% in 2021 to 0.1% in 2022 and is currently 0.02% in 2023 (as of the end of August 2023), equivalent to or lower than the mortality rate. Deaths from a number of group B infectious diseases commonly recorded in Vietnam in the last 5 years include: dengue fever (0.022%), malaria (0.017%), diphtheria (0.102%), and whooping cough (0.417). %);
The causative agent of COVID-19 has been clearly identified as the SARS-CoV-2 virus;
COVID-19 currently meets the criteria for a group B infectious disease as prescribed in Point b, Clause 1, Article 3 of the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases: it is a dangerous infectious disease capable of rapid transmission and can deadly.
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