Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam on July 27 visited quarantine camps and COVID-19 treatment facilities in Ho Chi Minh City - currently the epicenter of Viet Nam's fourth COVID-19 wave. 

Deputy PM Vu Duc Dam (first, right) talks with doctors working at Cho Ray Hospital -
a key treatment facility for the sickest COVID-19 patients. He emphasizes that
the top priority is to reduce the number of coronavirus-related deaths while strictly
implementing the Government’s Directive No.16/CT-TTg on social distancing
– Photo: VGP/Dinh Nam 

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam inspect a vaccination site at 175 Military Hospital.
- Photo: VGP/Dinh Nam

He inspects a 200-bed COVID-19 treatment facility located at 175 Military Hospital.
– Photo: VGP/Dinh Nam

Director of the 175 Military Hospital Nguyen Hong Son briefs the Deputy PM
on the hospital’s key tasks in the COVID-19 fight to the Deputy PM
– Photo: Vietnamnet. 

Deputy PM Vu lauds 175 Military Hospital's achievements in the pandemic
prevention and control work – Photo: Vietnamnet

As of morning on July 27, Ho Chi Minh City recorded 68,271 locally-transmitted COVID-19 cases since April 27 when the fourth wave of COVID-19 resurgence began.