Thursday, 23:56, 06/05/2021
VOV.VN - Hanoi Party Committee Secretary Dinh Tien Dung has refuted rumours swirling around social media networks that the capital city has imposed a lockdown order to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Hanoi tests all people from epidemic hit localities.
This is incorrect information, Dung told local media outlets late on May 6.
Nguyen Thi Mai Huong deputy director of the Hanoi Department of Information and Communications, also confirmed that local authorities have had no intention of enforcing a blockade to combat the new coronavirus outbreak.
We are verifying information on unfounded rumors related to the blockade surfacing on social media networks, Huong told Tien Phong newspaper late on May 6.
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06/05/2021 18:48 GMT+7
The latest COVID-19 wave to hit Vietnam is more complicated to deal with than previous ones as there are various sources of infection,
according to Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, former director of the Preventive Medicine Department under the Ministry of Health.
Massive testing is underway in Vinh Phuc, a coronavirus hotspot in Vietnam.
Vietnam has recorded 64 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the virus recurred in Ha Nam Province on April 28.
Over the past eight days, the virus has since spread to 10 cities and provinces nationwide and is now expected to impact a greater number of localities, for infected patients have used public transport, visited crowded locations, and met lots of pe
A COVID-19 check point in Tien Phong village, Binh Xuyen district of Vinh Phuc (Photo: VNA)
Vinh Phuc (VNA) – The northern province of
locally-transmitted cases of COVID-19 and two imported cases by 4pm
May 6, according to the provincial steering committee for
COVID-19 prevention
and control.
Competent agencies have collected samples of 7,753 people for
testing so far, and 8,191 people have been put into quarantine.
They are also tracing people who had sought medical treatment at or
visited the Kim Chung facility of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases
in Hanoi, where a cluster of infections have been detected.
The provincial authorities have expanded concentrated quarantine
Thursday, May 06, 2021, 14:41 GMT+7
Chu Ngoc Anh (second right), chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, oversees the handling of the COVID-19 cluster at the Dong Anh District branch of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, May 5, 2021. Photo: Nguyen Khanh / Tuoi Tre
Hanoi authorities are calling for increased vigilance against the spread of COVID-19 and requresting local residents to refrain from leaving their homes unless out of necessity.
Following last week’s re-emergence of COVID-19 in Vietnam, Chu Ngoc Anh, chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, urged city officials of all levels to guard against the risk of widespread outbreaks in an official letter issued on Wednesday.
Thai Binh General Hospital is under temporary lockdown over COVID-19 fears (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) –
Vietnam recorded 60 cases of
COVID-19 during the 12 hours to 6pm May 6,
including 56
locally-infected cases and four imported, according to the
Among the 56 local
cases, 16 were at the second facility of the National Hospital for Tropical
Diseases in Hanoi, 12 in the northern province of Bac Ninh, 11 in the northern
province of Vinh Phuc, four in Hanoi, 3 in the central city of Da Nang.
The national tally has
reached 3,090, with 1,690 local cases. In the latest wave of outbreaks from
April 27, 120 cases have been detected.
A total of 2,560