A quarantined person in Hanoi has her body temperature checked. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – All of the COVID-19 infection cases in Hanoi have been trackeddown, with no community transmission detected, Chairman of the municipalPeople’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said at a meeting on March 9.
Givennew challenges to the disease combat, the official called for greater effortsto complete the list of those people who have been in close contact with theinfection cases.
Allof the overseas working trips by the city’s officials must be cancelled unlessthey get approval from the Prime Minister, and unnecessary conferences shouldbe scrapped or scaled down, Chung requested.
Themunicipal Department of Health and the Hanoi-based National Institute ofHygiene and Epidemiology will admit first-generation patients to ease overload atthe National Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
FromMarch 10-15, the department in coordination with the city’s Military HighCommand will allow those who have completed their quarantine period to go home,according to the official.
Asmany as 1,893 people will leave concentrated quarantine centres in the city onMarch 10. Twenty-eight Koreans will also be allowed to return to their homecountry on this occasion.
HoangDuc Hanh, Deputy Director of the department, reported that as of 15:00 on March9, Hanoi had recorded four COVID-19 infection cases, with no fatality.
Regardingthe information about the lockdown of the luxurious Metropole Hotel in HoanKiem district where British tourists had stayed, a representative of thedistrict said that authorities sterilised the hotel and another at 12 NguyenQuang Bich street.
OnMarch 9 afternoon, the two hotels resumed their normal operation, and MetropoleHotel has not been on lockdown as presumed, the official confirmed./.
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