The document has been sent amid the capital recording a total of 35 positive COVID-19 cases, including cases of 11 community infection and one secondary case. Most notably, there have even been cases where the individuals involved displayed no symptoms for a 14-day period. 

In line with this, residents have been advised to adopt a range of preventive measures such as wearing facial masks when going out and avoiding large crowds of more than 30 people in public.

Those who suffer from chronic diseases and are at high risk, in addition to the elderly, are advised to stay indoors. In addition, it is imperative to fill out medical declarations according to regulations and immediately head to medical facilities if an individual is showing signs of a cough, a fever, shortness of breath, or pneumonia.

Furthermore, all staff at restaurants, cafés, and pubs, are ordered to don face masks, whilst customers must sit a metre apart from each other as of midnight on August 19. Indeed, service establishments, factories, and construction sites, must strictly implement these measures in an effort to ensure the public’s safety against the epidemic in accordance to regulations.

The document underscores the urgent need to finalise testing for all returnees from the central city of Da Nang to Hanoi by August 20, whilst also swiftly notifying local residents on their test results. 

According to the Hanoi Department of Health, there are currently 18,333 people across 14 of Hanoi's districts who returned from Da Nang between July 15 and July 29 who have not had their samples taken for RT-PCR tests aimed at minimising the risk of local transmission.

A woman in Hanoi’s Tay Ho district is one of the new cases of COVID-19 announced by the Ministry of Health on August 18 morning, bringing the total number of local infections in the capital city to 11 since July 25.

Elsewhere, the Quang Ninh Provincial People's Committee has recently issued an urgent telegram that requests the continued implementation of urgent tasks aimed at combating COVID-19, whilst also setting up checkpoints for commuters and vehicles at a number of traffic gateways close to Hai Duong province. 

Quang Ninh province has also decided to suspend the operation of massage and video game service facilities, bars, pubs, clubs, beauty salons, and physical therapy sites staring from midnight on August 19.

All local residents must don masks in public and comply with anti-epidemic regulations set out by the Ministry of Health.

People returning from Da Nang called for testing

Authorities in Hanoi are calling for over 18,000 people who returned from Danang between July 15-29 to have viral testing. 

According to Hanoi Department of Health, 18,333 people who returned from Danang from July 15 to July 29 still haven't been tested. They are mostly residents in 14 districts including Ha Dong, Dong Da, Hoang Mai, Thanh Xuan, Cau Giay, Long Bien, Ba Dinh, Tay Ho, Thanh Tri and Dong Anh.

They are asked to quickly go to testing locations to have samples taken from August 18 to 19.

At a meeting on August 17, the Hanoi Steering Committee on Covid-19 Prevention and Control announced that 100,090 people had returned to Hanoi from Danang since July 15.

Since August 8, they have taken samples of the people returning during July 15-29 period. 50,602 samples have been taken and sent to the testing units under the Ministry of Health. 28,478 of which have come back negative.

The Hanoi CDC has tested 1,086 people, of which two are positive. They are Patient 752 in Phuc Tho and Patient 962 in Thanh Xuan District.

Ngo Van Quy, vice-chairman of Hanoi People's Committee, called for all personnel to be responsible to ensure quick and accurate testing results by August 20. People with symptoms like coughing and a fever may be tested even if they didn't return from Danang after July 15.

Hospitals are asked to tighten monitoring and ensure safety for medical staff.

"Hospitals that do not meet the requirements will be closed," he said. VOV/VNA/VNN/Dtinews

Compiled by Le Ha

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