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The Vietnamese government has ordered all concerned agencies to work together to ensure tight quarantine on SARS suspects at border gates for fear that the disease may return, Vietnam News Agency report on Wednesday.
In an instruction released on Monday, Vietnamese Prime Minister Phan Van Khai listed out six measures for the ministries of police, national defense, transport and communication, and finance, as well as the Vietnam Administration of Tourism, the Vietnam Civil Aviation Administration, and provinces and cities to work together with the Ministry of Health to make sure that all those who enter into Vietnam from the countries still not free of SARS should be quarantined for 10 days.
The Foreign Ministry has been responsible for informing the decision to the Vietnamese diplomatic corps abroad and foreign representative offices operating in Vietnam.
Full information, including telephone numbers and addresses, of those people who enter into Vietnam from the disease-hit areas will be provided by the ministries of public security and transport and communication for the Ministry of Health and local authorities to supervise the life development of the suspects.
Authorities of provinces and cities, especially those in the north with border gates and those with international airports or seaports, will install more equipment and dispatch professional personnel to meet the demand for medical quarantine.
The prime minister also asked the heads of those concerned agencies to report the implementation of their assignments regularly.
Vietnam was declared free of SARS by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on April 28, becoming the first in the world to make such an achievement.
Source: Xinhua News Agency
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