HCM City police hunt for Chinese escapees from quarantine facility
VOV.VN - Relevant agencies are hunting for two Chinese citizens who managed to escape from a concentrated quarantine facility in Ho Chi Minh City’s Cu Chi district.
The two escapees, with one born in 1999 and the other in 2000, are Chinese who are among 11 Chinese citizens illegally entering Vietnam, according to Nguyen Huu Hoai Phu, chairman of the Cu Chi District administration.
“The group were transferred to Cu Chi for quarantine and medical surveillance according to COVID-19 rules five days ago,” said Phu at a meeting of the HCM City Steering Committee on COVID-19 Prevention and Control on May 3.
“The two Chinese citizens might have fled to neighbouring districts,” the official speculated, adding that the Cu Chi facility is now quarantining a person who had come into close contact with a COVID-19 patient of Ha Nam province.
At the meeting, Nguyen Thanh Phong, chairman of the municipal government, asked relevant agencies to tighten COVID-19 prevention and control measures, especially for illegal entrants.
“We need to make sure that there are no loopholes in the management and monitoring in concentrated quarantine facilities,” said Phong.
He also unveiled that relevant forces have detained more than 100 illegal entrants during the past month, but warned the real figure could be much higher.
“For these cases, our view is to strictly handle according to the law,” said Phong.