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Ho Chi Minh City has announced to halt coronavirus tests for people traveling abroad and instead focus on community screening in wake of rising hotspots.
Starting Monday, the city’s Center for Disease Control (HCDC) will no longer offer the testing service to those wanting to go abroad.

[UNICEF Vietnam] During the COVID-19 outbreak, the risk of exposure to F0 & F1 can happen to you any time. This leads to the fact that you and your family members may have to be quarantined in a quarantine center for a period.

The decision was made this morning at an urgent meeting on COVID-19 response, with the attendance of Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh who was assigned to oversee the COVID-19 pandemic fight in the southern metropolis.

The list earlier comprised frontline medical workers, other medical staff, soldiers, police officers, teachers, diplomatic personnel, customs and immigration officers, those working in essential services like transport, people aged 65 and above, poor people, those with chronic diseases, people seeking to study or work abroad, and those living in pandemic-hit areas.

From 12am of May 25, 2021, Hanoi temporarily closes service establishments amid Covid-19 in response to new developments of Covid-19.

Ha Noi starts shutting down all food and beverage establishments as well as hair salons and beauty parlors from 12:00 on May 25 so as to contain the spread of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 which causes COVID-19.

The Ministry of Health recommends people to adhere to 5K (in Vietnamese) rules: Khau trang (facemask), Khu khuan (disinfection), Khoang cach (distance), Khong tu tap (no gathering) and Khai bao y te (health declaration) to safely coexist with the COVID-19 pandemic in ‘new normal’ state.

All people visiting drugstores to buy medicine for fever, coughing and sore throats will have to provide personal information for monitoring.