Hanoi halts all non-essential services from 0:00 on July 19
Hanoi (VNA)
- Chairman of the Hanoi municipal
People's Committee Chu Ngoc Anh on July 18 ordered halting all non-essential
services amid the complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Accordingly, Hanoi
citizens are required to stay at home and only go out when necessary such as business
trip, food and medicine purchase, and other emergency cases like health
check-ups and treatment.
The municipal authorities
also asked residents not to gather more than five people outside the
workplaces, schools and hospitals, and fill in health declarations on the website www.tokhaiyte.vn or apps Ncovi and Bluezone.
Agencies,
businesses, including foreign-invested ones, were urged to actively outline
online working or work-in-shift plans.
Shopping malls,
supermarkets, wholesale and wet markets in the city only sell necessities.
Public transport means must reduce seats by half.
The city directed
preparing sufficient food and necessities in every case./.