On August 12, in response to Thanh Hoa province's announcement of a diphtheria epidemic in Muong Lat town, the Department of Preventive Medicine (Ministry of Health) issued an urgent dispatch requesting the Director of the Thanh Hoa Provincial Department of Health to direct medical units in the area to strictly implement the Prime Minister's instructions in Official Dispatch No. 68/CD-TTg dated July 13 on strengthening diphtheria prevention and control; urgently reviewing cases in close contact with diphtheria cases; monitoring and early detection of suspected cases in the outbreak and in the community; taking samples, testing to identify cases of the disease and promptly implementing medical isolation measures, handling the outbreak and providing prophylactic antibiotics for all close contacts. Medical facilities in the area ensure the work of admission, emergency care, triage, and treatment of patients; Set up separate areas for examination, isolation, treatment, and emergency care of patients, minimizing deaths...

On August 11, the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa province announced a diphtheria epidemic in Muong Lat town after 3 cases of diphtheria were recorded in the locality. On the afternoon of August 12, Ms. Ha Thi Phuc, Director of Muong Lat District Medical Center (Thanh Hoa province), said that the unit had just proposed to the competent authority to supplement 25,000 doses of tetanus-diphtheria adsorbed vaccine to vaccinate subjects at risk and high risk of diphtheria in Muong Lat town and 3 neighboring communes.

KHANH NGUYEN - DUY CUONG