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Given the stabilizing situation in the province, the outbreak control special unit has been dissolved and supported medical workforces have gradually decreased since the second week of June. [104], On 9 March evening, a 49-year-old British man was tested positive (case #31) and put into quarantine in Qung Nam Province, previously on the same flight with patient number 17. ", "Dch COVID-19: Bc Ninh v Bc Giang d kin quay li trng thi "bnh thng mi" t 10/7", Chiu 3/5, thm 10 ca mc COVID-19 trong cng ng ti H Nam, Vnh Phc, H Nam pht hin 4 ca dng tnh SARS-CoV-2 lin quan dch L Nhn, "Khu vc c dch COVID-19 cui cng H Nam c d b phong ta", 7 ca mc Covid-19 Nng lm cng thm m vin AMIDA. Vietnam entered a nationwide lockdown on April 1. Chui ly nhim ch u mi khin Nng ko di cch ly, TP HCM sau hn mt thng p dng bin php chng dch, "TP HCM ' oxy' iu tr bnh nhn Covid-19". 5, tested positive; the 14th case. The number of new cases is up to hundreds per day, showing that the epidemic has been spreading widely into the community, making the outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City and the southern provinces difficult to predict. [277], In July 2021, Trn c Phu, an advisor to the Vietnam Public Health Emergency Operations Center, said that "the outbreak [in Ho Chi Minh City] remains complicated". Many returned from various countries, including Britain, Malaysia, and France; which were at the time severely hit by COVID-19. News of the worsening coronavirus crisis hit Vietnam shares on Friday, with its benchmark index closing down 3.3 per cent. [167] On the same day, all 180 bars and discos in Ho Chi Minh City re-opened. In Ho Chi Minh City, after 4 months of applying strict "social distancing" measures to curb the pandemic, the city eased restrictions from the evening of 30 September 2021. As of 21 August, the infection chain related to Th Quang fishing port and at the quarantine areas in Sn Tr recorded 1,124 cases while Ha Cng market chain is at "very high risk" with 699 patients. During the Christian mission outbreak, the health sector increased testing capacity to a hundred thousand per day. [18] The drastic epidemic control measures had positive results and the country did not confirm any cases of local transmission from mid-April to the end of July. [162], On 30 August, Vietnam recorded its first day without new cases since the beginning of the second outbreak. Mon 14 Dec . After nine days, the disease in here had spread to seven districts in Nng. [11] On the afternoon of 20 March, the Ministry of Health announced 2 new COVID-19 patients, the 86th and 87th, who were two female nurses at Bch Mai Hospital with no history of contact with any COVID-19 patients. [218] On Lunar New Year's Eve 12 February, all provinces and cities stopped firing fireworks and New Year festivals to limit crowds (except for Hanoi still had one fireworks display spot at Thng Nht Park, instead of 30 as planned). These are the first two localities of Ho Chi Minh City successfully brought F0 out of the community, limited the number of new cases and have a high rate of COVID-19 vaccine coverage in the community. [85], Earlier of the same day, Vietnam declared to have successfully cultured and isolated the virus in the lab, one of the early countries to do this, along with Singapore, Australia, Japan and China. [86], On 9 February, a 55-year-old woman, a neighbour of case No. The source of infection of the first case has yet to be identified. [52], On 29 August, Prime Minister Phm Minh Chnh stated that Vietnam might have to live with the virus and could not rely on indefinite closures and quarantines. [9] Having known cases early is one of the main reasons why Vietnam was successful in fighting the virus. 17. City health officials quarantined 343 close contacts and tested them; all the tests were negative. Border forces have increased their number of troops and continuously patrolled to prevent illegal border entrants. Of Vietnam's nearly 16,000 COVID-19 fatalities . HANOI, July 23 (Reuters) - Vietnam will extend a lockdown in Ho Chi Minh City until Aug. 1 and impose stricter restrictions in the capital Hanoi from Saturday, as the Southeast Asian country. Chairman of the People's Committee of Nng L Trung Chinh signed a decision to extend the time of social distancing and asked people to self-isolate themselves until 26 August. [151][152] On the same day, the first two deaths due to COVID-19 occurred in Vietnam: patient 428 and 437, two elderly 70 and 61 years old man respectively, who appeared to have contracted the virus in Da Nang. This marked a major change in the country's approach to COVID-19,[53][54][55] forcing Vietnam to accelerate its vaccination campaign to control the pandemic. Under a close monitoring. At the beginning of the outbreak, most of the cases were linked with hospitals cluster and related to Nng (47 cases), but in late May the authorities discovered a cluster with unknown source of infection at T&T company and Park 11 Times City apartment complex. All cases linked with POYUN or Van Don International Airport. [264][265], Quang Chu and Vn Trung industrial zones are located very close to each other, next to the arterial road is the Hanoi - Bc Giang expressway and two frontage roads running parallel to the highway. [296], Bnh Dng cluster: Since the fourth wave of COVID-19 broke out, the total of cases in this local is over 16,000 (11% of total cases in Vietnam), mainly in hostels, companies and industrial parks. [227], On the evening of 25 March, a Chinese man living in Thuan An City, Binh Duong Province took the COVID test to go to Cambodia, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. The 4th Coast Guard Region Command, has also sent 32 boats to the region. [89] This case also marked the 10th case found in Vinh Phuc and prompted Vinh Phuc province leadership to implement quarantine of the at-risk village named Son Loi with more than 10,600 people, activating mobile food shops and handing out free masks to all villagers, in an effort to contain the spread of the virus. [307], After recording a decrease in the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths, many localities have adjusted to loosen social distancing. Due to the wide range of people he contacted, it raised the fear of the patient being a super spread patient. Particularly at Shin Young, the first infected company in Vn Trung industrial park, the rate was 79%. During the home-quarantine, the flight attendant has had direct contacts with three people including his mother and his two friends (one male and one female). The outbreak in here and related restrictions on movement have impacted its manufacturing-led economy, forcing the closure of factories. [262] Notably, the newly discovered cluster at Hosiden Vietnam Company (Quang Chu Industrial Park) has recorded a total of 660 cases (11% of its total employees). Nearly 5,000 of them are from Vietnam's largest metropolis, southern Ho Chi Minh City, which has also extended its lockdown until Aug. 1. Mostly related to POYUN cluster. [271], Nng cluster: As of 11 May, the city had 43 positive cases, and eight cases in six other localities, all related to New Phuong Dong discotheque, AMIDA salon and Phu An hotel. The number of confirmed cases is the highest total in Southeast Asia, and the 13th highest in the world. At the same time, the province has completed the construction of the ICU sites with 158 beds. [102], On 8 March, another case in Hanoi was announced, which was a 61-year-old man. In the latest wave of COVID-19 since April, Vietnam has . On 14 June, the disease had spread to hospitals, industrial parks, and residential neighborhoods, with approximately a thousand cases reported; the city therefore had to maintain social distancing for another two weeks. The first wave of the COVID-19 started in Vietnam (lasts for 85 days, from January 23 to April 16, 2020, included 100 community cases) with the original virus strain from Wuhan (China), and no deaths were reported. [28][29], The third wave of infection began on 28 January 2021, when Vietnam recorded an additional 84 community transmission cases within a single day in Hi Dng and Qung Ninh provinces. Reuters Daily Briefing All the news you need to start your day. [129][130], On 15 May, Vietnam confirmed 24 new cases, all of them from a repatriating flight from Russia and quarantined after arrival in Thai Binh and Quang Ninh, raising the total number of COVID-19 cases to 312. "V sao bnh nhn Covid-19 Bc Giang tng nhanh? [301][302], T&T company and Times City cluster: In the fourth wave, there a total of 171 community cases have been reported from 20/30 districts in Hanoi. As of June, there have been cases of COVID-19 in every areas in the province and spreading to other localities.[254][255]. [222], As Cambodia entered the third wave of infection, Vietnam in March recorded a rapid increase in the number of imported cases in the border provinces. Recent reports of a large number of foreigners, mainly Chinese, illegally entering the country, showing "lax immigration management". One was a one-year-old boy in District 6. A few days later the reinforcement from the Command of Naval Region 5 of the Vietnam People's Navy has sent more ships to patrol key areas, using radar to detect any boats coming from Cambodia. The lockdown order includes the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City metropolis, the country's financial and economic hub with over 35 million people nearly a third of Vietnam's population. HANOI, Vietnam (AP) Vietnam put its entire southern region in a two-week lockdown starting midnight Sunday, as confirmed COVID-19 cases exceeded 3,000 for the third day in a row. Vietnam: Coronavirus Pandemic Country Profile. For prevention of a large scale outbreak, Bc Giang decided to quarantined every people in Vit Yn district, where there are two industrial zones located from 15 May. Published 13 Oct 2021 Vietnam Coronavirus Ho Chi Minh City and the wider south in Vietnam finished its 24-hour-a-day Covid-19 lockdown of three months last week, allowing people to venture out to buy food rather than wait for soldiers to coordinate deliveries to their homes. BY KATHY KATELLA March 9, 2021. Chu Thnh is the province's hot spot with 103 cases, of which the highest concentration of cases is in An Hip and Tn Nhun ng communes. [232] Authorities fear the cross-border transmission via illegal entrants will trigger a fourth wave in Vietnam. Most of these are related to a single Hi Dng migrant worker, who was diagnosed with the UK coronavirus variant by Japanese authorities after arriving in Osaka on 17 January.