Hà Nội is striving to complete the implementation of RT-PCT testing, a real-time reserve transcription polymerase chain reaction, ahead of August 20 for 75,000 people who visited the central city of Đà Nẵng – a COVID-19 hotspot – and returned to Hà Nội from July 15, according to a leading official.

Doctors, nurses and more than 3,000 residents of the streets celebrated the re-opening of the hospital and the living quarters in the downtown area.

Eight doctors, five nurses and three laboratory technicians have been sent to hospitals in Đà Nẵng and neighbouring Quảng Nam Province in the last two weeks.

Vietnamese agencies, the Vietnamese Embassy in Russia and national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines coordinated with the Russian side to bring home more than 340 Vietnamese citizens on Monday.