VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has approved Ho Chi Minh City’s proposal to isolate asymptomatic F0 cases at home on a trial basis amidst a surge in the number of coronavirus infections in Vietnam’s largest and most populous city.

VOV.VN - All individuals seeking to return to their localities from Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s largest COVID-19 hotspot, must self-isolate at home for a period of seven days and undergo three tests for the virus, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).

The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Information and Communications has written to the municipal government presenting three solutions applying technology to monitor those undergoing home quarantine after having direct contact with confirmed COVID-19 cases.

VOV.VN - As many as 277 people have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus in six Vietnamese cities and provinces during the past 12 hours, including 270 cases in Ho Chi Minh City.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 27 led a Government delegation to inspect the COVID-19 prevention and control and treatment for COVID-19 patients in southern Binh Duong province that houses numerous industrial parks.

VOV.VN - Ho Chi Minh City has been selected to carry out a pilot scheme on home quarantine for F1 cases that are in first hand contact with a COVID-19 patient if they meet certain conditions.

VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health is set to allow F1 cases involving individuals who came into first-hand contact with a OVID-19 patient to quarantine at home in an effort to ease pressure on concentrated isolation facilities, as well as frontline healthcare workers.

VOV.VN - A Japanese expert working for Canon Vietnam Co. Ltd. has been diagnosed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Hanoi, announced the Hanoi Centre for Diseases Control (CDC).

Hanoi authorities on December 5 recorded two coronavirus-positive patients, including a man who again tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 after being discharged from hospital in Dong Da district, and a diplomat entering Vietnam and under stay-at-home quarantine in Bac Tu Liem district.