Vietnamese citizens returning homeland from Japan are quarantined in Hung Yen province. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health has recently sent a document on theextension of the concentrated quarantine period to directors of Centres forDisease Control (CDC), and Preventive Medicine Centres nationwide.
Accordingly, all concentrated quarantine facilities have been told not torelease people after they complete the 14-day quarantine period, and test negativefor novel coronavirus twice.
This came after some people who completed their two-week duration testedpositive for the virus after leaving quarantine sites.
The new quarantine measure is applied from 0:00 on May 4 until further notice fromthe National Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control.
Most recently, an Indian expert, who works for local automaker Vinfast, has beenconfirmed with COVID-19 in Hanoi. The man,born in 1984, arrived in Vietnam on April 17 and was immediately put under14-day quarantine at a hotel in Hong Bang district, the northern city of HaiPhong.
He tested negative for the virus twice duringthe mandatory quarantine period, and left for Hanoi on May 1 to stay with hiswife and children at Park 10, Hoang Mai district’s Times City.
Authorities are actively tracing people having close contact with him forCOVID-19 test and quarantine to prevent the virus spreading further./.
VNA
