On Friday (Mar 20), the committee sent an urgent dispatch on this issue to the relevant ministries and local authorities, instructing them to organise concentrated isolation for all people from countries and territories entering Vietnam from 0:00 on Saturday.
In case of any entry showing signs of fever, cough or shortness of breath, they should be taken immediately to medical facilities for isolation, treatment and testing.
Those coming to Vietnam for diplomatic and official purposes who are in good health, have no signs of disease and are guaranteed by their representative mission to ensure absolute isolation conditions will be quarantined at diplomatic agencies or accommodation establishments for the full 14 days from their date of entry into Vietnam.
In special cases, written documents from the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and relevant ministries (when necessary) are required, according to the notice.
On Friday, the MoH announced six more cases testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19, bringing the total in Vietnam so far to 91. Among them, 17 have recovered and been discharged from hospital.
Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Duc Chung speaks at the meeting. (Photo: NDO/Nguyen Trang)
* On Friday afternoon, Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Duc Chung announced that the medical lockdown at a neighbourhood in Truc Bach street, where patient No. 17 resides, lasted for the full 14 days as of Friday evening, and that all 189 people there have shown negative test results.
Chung authorised the chairman of the Truc Bach Ward People's Committee (in Ba Dinh District) to sign a decision to lift the lockdown on Friday afternoon.
In the near future, Hanoi will welcome 20,000 Vietnamese from abroad. Therefore, it is recommended that local people continue to promptly report cases showing signs of the disease and participate in monitoring those individuals subject to medical isolation in the community, the Hanoi leader suggested.
Many foreign tourists completing medical isolation
Prof., Dr. Pham Nhu Hiep, Director of Hue Central Hospital (R) presents flowers and a letter from the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to a British female traveler who has completed her medical isolation in Hue City. (Photo: NDO/Cong Hau)
On the afternoon of March 20, the COVID-19 Prevention and Control Steering Committee in Thua Thien - Hue Province announced that the province has granted 14 days of medical isolation completion certificates to 34 foreign tourists and local citizens who had close contact with COVID-19-positive patients detected in Thua Thien - Hue.
The same day, Hoi An City in Quang Nam Province also granted certificates recognising 39 foreign tourists who had finished their isolation period with negative test results before returning their home countries. They were on the same flight to Vietnam with cases identified positive for COVID-19 before, so they must conduct isolation for 14 days in accordance with the regulations of the MoH.
Sa Pa Town authorities on Friday also released 34 citizens who had close contact with two British patients infected with COVID-19, after they completed their two-week isolation.
