The Nội Bài International Airport in Hà Nội will stop receiving foreign arrivals from Tuesday until June 7 amid complicated development of COVID-19.

Earlier today the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) handed over 1,652 COVID-19 test kits to the Ministry of Health (MoH) as part of an effort to help put the spread of the virus in northern Việt Nam under control. 

Hà Nội’s Centre for Diseases Control on Monday moved suspected COVID-19 cases from the concentrated quarantine area in the Military School of Hà Nội Capital High Command to FPT University dorms after dozens of cases were detected in the area on Sunday night.

The busy streets of the southern economic centre HCM City fell silent on Monday, the first day of the two-week social distancing order in a bid to contain swelling COVID-19 case numbers.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hòa Bình has ordered HCM City to tighten COVID-19 prevention measures at industrial zones and export processing zones as the city begins its two-week social distancing period starting on Monday (May 31).