The Ministry of Health has urged people to stay at home and only leave their homes for a handful of special reasons.
The HCM City Party Committee on Thursday (March 26) approved paying an allowance of VNĐ1 million (US$42.5) a month to people losing their livelihoods due to the COVID-19 pandemic from the outlay meant for paying wage hikes this year to city officials.
According to the urgent notice, the patients went to several restaurants, bars and shopping centres.
Personnel working in quarantines, hospitals and centres for diseases prevention and control across the country have been working hard as thousands of Vietnamese return home from abroad amid the COVID-19 epidemic.
It has been a week since Trần Diễm My, a student of Hà Nội Medical University, began volunteering.
The Ministry of Health on Thursday morning confirmed seven more COVID-19 patients, including five Vietnamese, one French man and one South African woman, bringing the country's total number to 148.
The Ministry of Health has asked health departments of localities nationwide to review infection prevention measures at hospitals to prevent cross infection.
Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc discussed with leaders of the Mekong Delta province of Sóc Trăng measures to tackle saltwater intrusion in the region during a teleconference on Tuesday.
A lot of young ethnic people living in mountainous remote areas like Lan have recently headed to the cities, bringing not only positive changes but also negative impacts to the ethnic community.
The latest case is a 29-year-old doctor working at the emergency unit of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases, where most of the coronavirus patients in Hà Nội are being treated.