Washing hands before entering the quarantine site (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Fourteen-day quarantine willcontinue to be applied on foreign experts, investors, entrepreneurs, managementofficials and Vietnamese entering Vietnam from other countries, said ForeignMinistry’s Spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang at the ministry’s regular pressbriefing held online on February 4.
Amid the complicated developments of COVID-19 recently, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has issued a decree on a number ofurgent measures on COVID-19 prevention and control, while the Government Officehas released a notification on the PM’s conclusion at a cabinet meeting on the matter, she noted.
In the documents, the PM asked authorities of localities topromptly direct the control of the pandemic in a super fast manner, whilestrengthening efforts to thoroughly extinguish the pandemic, taking samples forlarge-scale COVID-19 testing, and the strict implementation of the 21-dayquarantine policy, said the spokesperson.
As of the beginning of February 4, the number of community infections in Vietnam since January 27 had reached 329, bringing thetotal number of locally infected patients to 1,022./.
