Individuals and households who must move out of dilapidated apartment buildings or who have handed over land or housing for public works will receive financial support to rent temporary housing while waiting for resettlement housing or land lots, with a maximum amount of VNĐ24 million (US$1,020) per household per month.

The whole area of Đồng Văn District, in the northern mountainous province of Hà Giang, has been locked down on Wednesday until further notice after the first COVID-19 case was reported in the province last week.

Work to embank Hoàn Kiếm Lake in Hà Nội started on Monday evening, using precast concrete blocks which are said to help minimise possible negative impacts of the work on the lake and surrounding environment.

Minister of Information and Communications Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng, who also chairs the Việt Nam-India Friendship Association, presented 100,000 antibacterial cloth masks to Indian Ambassador Pranay Verma on Tuesday to assist the South Asian nation in the fight against COVID-19.

The bomb was found in a residential area of Điện Biên Phủ City in the northern mountainous province of Điên Biên, said lieutenant colonel Đỗ Quốc Hùng.

Six more patients with COVID-19 have recovered at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases on Wednesday, bringing the country’s total cases being given the all-clear to 222.

Hà Nội remains in the high-risk group and should have social distancing measures extended until April 30, the national steering committee on COVID-19 control and prevention said on Wednesday morning.

People across Việt Nam are in the midst of social distancing to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and with thousands of people cooped up at home, stress is building.