Chip large Intel and soda maker Coca-Cola is doing all they’ll to take care of manufacturing operations amid HCMC’s worst Covid-19 wave.
Intel has vaccinated 71 p.c of its staff in Vietnam, which hosts the corporate’s largest chip meeting and testing website, in keeping with Nikkei.
Vietnam has “put in place the security mandates to make sure the security for individuals first, which is superb, however [we] additionally should preserve the enterprise operating to take care of Vietnam’s competitiveness,” mentioned Uyen Ho, Intel Vietnam and Malaysia director of public affairs.
Coca-Cola Vietnam has arranged tents to accommodate its staff inside its premises to forestall contagion.
The corporate pays about $10 a day additional to staff who dwell on web site and obtained their written consent so they’d know what they had been in for, mentioned Truc Huynh, the corporate’s human assets director.
“We have to put together our individuals’ mindset for residing on-site,” she mentioned.
These measures are imposed as Ho Chi Minh Metropolis experiences its most extreme Covid-19 outbreak with over 18,000 native circumstances in over two months.
Amid the town’s 15-day social distancing marketing campaign, solely factories that have imposed strict social distancing measures, together with establishing lodging for its staff and conducting common Covid-19 assessments are allowed to function.