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On the morning of October 20, the Ministry of Health informed that the Covid-19 epidemic has been officially converted into a group B infectious disease, with an average incubation period of 4 days and the time without detecting new cases of the disease is 8 days.
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According to the Ministry of Health, Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has just signed Decision 26/2023/QD-TTg amending the appendix regulating the average incubation period and the period of time when no new cases of infectious diseases are detected as a basis for declaring the end of an infectious disease epidemic, issued together with Decision No. 02/2016/QD-TTg dated January 28, 2016, regulating the conditions for declaring an epidemic and declaring the end of an infectious disease epidemic.
The decision clearly states that the group, average incubation period and time without detecting new cases of Covid-19 (formerly known as acute respiratory infection caused by the new strain of Corona virus) are supplemented. Accordingly, Covid-19 belongs to group B, the average incubation period is 4 days, the time without detecting new cases is 8 days.
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Covid-19 epidemic has become a group B infectious disease in Vietnam |
Previously, 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 the regulations on conditions for declaring an epidemic and declaring the end of an infectious disease epidemic, the average incubation period of Covid-19 is 14 days and the time without detecting any new cases of Covid-19 is 28 days.
The revision of the average incubation period from 14 days to 4 days and the period without detecting new Covid-19 cases from 28 days to 8 days is based on scientific grounds and the current developments of the Covid-19 epidemic.
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Covid-19 moved to group B due to very low number of deaths and new cases |
The Ministry of Health also clarified that the change of Covid-19 from group A to group B was due to information comparing 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 A infectious disease.
Specifically, from the beginning of 2023 to the end of August 2023, the whole country recorded 97,628 Covid-19 cases, an average of about 12,000 cases per month; the average number of cases per month decreased 12 times compared to 2021 (about 144,000 cases/month) and decreased 68 times compared to 2022 (about 816,000 cases/month). The mortality rate due to Covid-19 decreased from 1.86% in 2021 to 0.1% in 2022 and is currently 0.02% in 2023, equivalent to or lower than the mortality rate of some common group B infectious diseases recorded in Vietnam in the past 5 years such as: dengue fever (0.022%), malaria (0.017%), diphtheria (0.102%), whooping cough (0.417%).
Along with that, the causative agent of Covid-19 has also been clearly identified as the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Therefore, Covid-19 currently meets the criteria of Group B infectious diseases as prescribed in Point b, Clause 1, Article 3 of the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases, which are dangerous infectious diseases that can spread rapidly and can cause death.
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