Hanoi expands home isolation to 30 districts

LOCAL authorities in Hanoi are expanding home isolation for F0 and F1 cases in the city to 30 districts and townships, as prescribed by the health sector.

The requirement was made after the chairman of Hanoi’s People’s Committee Chu Ngoc Anh signed a dispatch to implement measures in response to a continued rise in Covid-19 cases in the city.

It is expected that the number of new cases will continue to rise rapidly as travel traditionally increases in the last months of the year.

There have been 1,751 new cases found in the city between Nov 25 to Dec 1, an average of 291 cases a day.

The chairman asked the Department of Health to guide districts and townships in strengthening measures that control the pandemic.

The Department of Health will coordinate with the Department of Information and Communications to deploy software to manage the treatment of F0 cases at medical facilities and at home.

Localities have coordinated with the Department of Health to set up facilities to provide treatment for mild and asymptomatic F0 cases following the mobile medical station model, ensuring each ward, commune and township have an average of at least 150 beds.

The dispatch also requests that more information be made available to the public, such as via the portals of districts and townships, to inform residents about the plan.

The Department of Tourism has been asked to cooperate with the Department of Health to review accommodations that meet the requirements for F1 isolation.

The city assigned districts and townships to coordinate with the Capital Command and the Department of Transport to transport F1 cases to the city’s concentrated isolation facilities within 12 hours of a positive test result. — Vietnam News/ANN