Covid developments in Mekong Delta provinces as of November 11 morning remained complicated.

Secretary of HCM City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen has ordered the Sai Gon Hi-Tech Park (SHTP) Management Board to place pandemic prevention and protection of workers’ heath as its top priority under the “new normal”.

More than a million people have now tested positive for COVID-19 in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Health has asked localities to review and instruct all schools to build flexible and safe COVID-19 prevention and control plans to allow children to go back to class.

Authorities in Hanoi have ordered the establishment of 508 mobile medical units, including 20 units to serve industrial parks and processing zones, after a sharp rise in cases in the capital city. 

Residents do not need to show proof of a negative Covid-19 test result when they enter other localities, according to the Ministry of Health’s latest guidelines.

Some National Assembly deputies have suggested that the National Assembly and Government should set April 27 as a memorial day for those who have died of Covid-19.

Vietnam has reached agreements for 200 million Covid-19 vaccine doses and has received about 125 million doses.

Vietnamese authorities have started granting electronic COVID-19 vaccine certificates for people to travel abroad, provided they have received two doses of vaccine.

The number of COVID-19 cases in HCM City has increased in districts with industrial parks, according to the city's Department of Health.

Consecutively from November 3 to the present, the capital has recorded more than 100 new local COVID-19 cases each day.

Hanoi reported 93 positive cases of COVID-19 including 54 community cases from 6pm on Friday to 6pm on Saturday.

Localities across the country need to remain proactive in dealing with new COVID-19 clusters, said members of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control in a recent meeting.

As the number of new COVID-19 community cases continues to increase, the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta is facing a risk of a large-scale outbreak.

COVID-19 patients in HCM City who do not meet the criteria for home quarantine will be allowed to stay at a designated quarantine facility in their local area or at their company, 

The Mekong Delta provinces are scrambling to control an unexpected surge in community cases of COVID-19, with many showing unknown sources of infection.

The Mekong Delta provinces are faced with a high risk of COVID-19 infections with 1.6 per cent of people returning from pandemic hotspots testing positive for the virus after the provinces resumed production under the “new normal”.

Hanoi City’s health authority has made a list of 680,000-840,000 children at 12 to 17 years of age eligible to receive Covid-19 vaccine shots, according to the Hanoi Center for Disease Control. 

The number of people testing positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Vietnam has increased to 4,500 – 5,000 over the past few days compared to fewer than 4,000 recorded in the past week.

Hanoi will only require testing for those who come from COVID-19-affected areas at level 4 (very high risk) and quarantine for people from the areas at level 3 (high risk), according to the city's Department of Health.