Official Dispatch No. 422/BHXH-CSXH dated February 13, 2020 of the Vietnam Social Security on the settlement of social insurance benefits for employees forced to implement medical isolation measures to prevent the acute respiratory infections caused by new strain of Coronavirus

To:

- The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs

- The Ministry of Health

To implement the instruction of the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee in the Official Dispatch No. 79-CV/TW dated January 29, 2020 and the Prime Minister in the Directive No. 05/CT-TTg dated January 28, 2020 and the Directive No. 06/CT-TTg dated January 31, 2020 on the prevention and control of the acute respiratory infections caused by a new strain of Coronavirus (hereinafter referred to as Covid-19), the Vietnam Social Security issued the Official Dispatch No. 280/BHXH-CSYT on January 31, 2020 to direct the social insurance of provinces and cities to coordinate to implement the payment of treatment expenses for suspected Covid-19 cases. The implementation of social security policies for suspected Covid-19 cases not only covers medical treatment expenses but also is linked to the implementation of the sickness social insurance regime for employees who have infectious diseases specified in group A, some diseases in group B in general and the acute respiratory infections caused by the Covid-19 in particular and must be isolated in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases shall arise some problems and need to be removed. To be specific:

1. On February 01, 2020, the Prime Minister issued the Decision No. 173/QD-TTg on the announcement of the epidemic of an acute respiratory epidemic caused by a new strain of Coronavirus. The dangerous level of such epidemic is defined as the infectious disease of group A. Clause 1, Article 4 of the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases stipulates: “ Isolation is obligatory for persons suffering from an epidemic disease, persons suspected of suffering from an epidemic disease, persons carrying epidemic pathogens, persons who have been in contact with pathogens of an epidemic disease of class A and a number of diseases of class B stipulated by the Minister of Health”. In accordance with Article 1 of the Government’s Decree No. 101/2010/ND-CP dated September 30, 2020 on detailing the Law on Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases regarding the application of measures of medical isolation, coercive medical isolation and specific epidemic control during the epidemic period, the medical isolation measures include: Medical isolation at home; medical isolation at health facilities; medical isolation at border gates and medical isolation at other places and facilities.

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