The information was given by Colonel Tran Ngoc Duong, deputy director of Hanoi Department of Police, at a meeting on Wednesday of Hanoi’s Covid-19 prevention and control steering board.
The meeting of Hanoi’s Covid-19 prevention and control steering board on Wednesday.
Currently, five Covid-19 patients in Hanoi are being treated at National Hospital for Tropical Diseases unit in Dong Anh District.
Meanwhile, 760 people who face high risk of contracting the virus from the four patients have been quarantined.
At the meeting, Chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said that to date, up to 15 Covid-19 cases in Vietnam were passengers on Vietnam Airlines’ flight VND0054 from London to Noi Bai International Airport.
According to Chung, all people who came into contact with the four Covid-19 patients in Hanoi and those who contacted with them will be tested. Hanoi will pay all Covid-19 tests for these people.
Chung also requested municipal officials to cancel overseas working and unnecessary conferences should be scrapped or scaled down.
Colonel Tran Ngoc Duong, deputy director of Hanoi Department of Police said the city police have considered security plans to isolate more local areas and even the entire city in case the epidemic becomes more complicated.
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