Hanoi will expand COVID-19 testing for F2 cases and those in quarantined and high-risk areas to prevent the spread of the pandemic, said Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung.

Vietnam logged 37 locally-transmitted COVID-19 infections in the northern province of Hai Duong province in the past 12 hours as of 6am on February 4, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Nineteen locally-transmitted and one imported COVID-19 cases were detected from 6am to 6pm on February 3, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

Hanoi logged 21 cases of community transmission of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 from January 28 to February 3, according to Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung.

A third field hospital with 200 beds is being set up at the Sao Do University in the northern province of Hai Duong to treat COVID-19 patients and is expected to be completed on February 6.

Hanoi is determined to quickly contain the COVID-19 pandemic, said Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Vuong Dinh Hue.

Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has asked localities to change their tactic and act faster in the prevention and control of COVID-19 as the pandemic is developing complicatedly in a different way from before.

Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport has sought COVID-19 testing for about 3,200 employees in order to ensure there are staff working round the clock at the airport, Acting Director To Tu Ha said on February 2.

The People’s Committee of Dong Trieu town in the northern province of Quang Ninh has decided to impose a temporary lockdown on an additional 11 wards and communes from 9:00 am on February 2 until the province issues a new direction.

A new and more contagious variant of COVID-19 from the UK was found in patients in the northern provinces of Hai Duong and Quang Ninh, according to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.

Authorities in Hanoi have ordered the temporary closure of online game and internet shops from February 2 early morning, as part of the efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic in the city, according to Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Chu Xuan Dung.

Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long has requested Hanoi authorities to consider the establishment of a special hospital to treat COVID-19 patients, given the rapid spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

The new, highly infectious variant of COVID-19 from the UK has been discovered in another patient in Vietnam, announced the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City on February 1.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has urged Hanoi authorities to complete the collection of samples for those from pandemic-hit areas before January 4.