Quarantine area in Hanoi

During the meeting with Nguyen Duc Chung, chairman of Hanoi's People's Committee, the city's steering committee for prevention and control of Covid-19 said that they had worked with the Department of Health to quarantine Vietnamese people returning from South Korea in recent days. Medical checks and accommodation were implemented more smoothly.

However, sometimes thousands of people returned to Vietnam on the same day, putting pressure on the workforce. There are still 400 people waiting at Noi Bai Airport to be brought to quarantine areas. The military command in the capital has had to search for other quarantine areas in neighbouring provinces.

Brigadier Doan Ngoc Hung, deputy head of Hanoi Police Department, asked provinces that have people returning from outbreak areas to bring their residents to quarantine areas in their hometowns to help ease pressure on Hanoi.

According to Hung, the quarantine areas in Hanoi are overcrowded while more people are expected to arrive in Hanoi from South Korea.

According to the Department of Health, there is no confirmed case yet as of 3 pm on February 28. Suspected cases' houses and where they have visited will be disinfected and those who have close contact will also be monitored.

2,178 people who have visited the outbreak areas have been monitored and quarantined. Out of them, 1,899 people have been released. The Department of Health and the police are working together to quarantine 41 people who have been in South Korea and 36 people who recently returned from China.

There are 12 people with coughs upon returning to Vietnam who were brought to the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases. Three more quarantine areas will be opened at the military training camps for 1,000 people. Hanoi City Police Hospital received 119 people to their quarantine area, 29 of them have been released. Dtinews

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