Localities rush to set up concentrated quarantine sites
Neighbouring provinces around Ho Chi Minh City are rushing to set up concentrated quarantine sites to receive Vietnamese nationals returning from overseas who are subjected to mandatory quarantine amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Neighbouring provinces around Ho Chi Minh Cityare rushing to set up concentrated quarantine sites to receive Vietnamesenationals returning from overseas who are subjected to mandatory quarantineamid the COVID-19 outbreak.
The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong will arrange the Da Lat city’sStudent Dormitory with 960 beds and the province’s Nursing Centre for Peoplewith Merit with 170 beds as concentrated quarantine areas for returnees fromoverseas, said Doan Van Viet, chairman of the provincial People’s Committee.
The move aims to reduce the burden of similar quarantines areas in HCM Citythat have become overloaded, and Tay Ninh and Long An provinces, Viet said.
The province’s concentrated quarantine sites will able to receive at least2,500 people who are subject to mandatory 14-day quarantine, Viet said at ameeting on March 25.
He assigned the province’s Department of Transport to allocate vehicles totransport people to quarantine areas from Lien Khuong International Airport in LamDong province as well as locations from HCM City and Long An province.
The southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau has six concentrated quarantine sitesthat will receive at least 3,500 returnees from overseas in order to ease theoverload at concentrated quarantine centres in neighbouring localities.
Tran Van Tuan, deputy chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, said theprovince has approved several hotels as quarantine facilities to receive peoplewho are willing to pay for mandatory quarantine at hotels.
The province plans to organise four trips on March 28 and 29 and April 2 and 3to send a total of 2,000 people to quarantine sites in the province.
The southern province of Binh Phuoc, which shares a 210-km border withCambodia, has arranged concentrated quarantine areas with a total of 5,000beds.
Quach Ai Duc, director of the provincial Department of Health, said that nearly300 Vietnamese people returning home from Cambodia had been put under mandatoryquarantine in the province’s concentrated quarantine areas.
Twenty people tested negative for COVID-19.
The provincial People’s Committee ordered the Department of Health to mobilisefinancial resources for tests for the remaining people who have returned fromoverseas since March 1./.
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An isolation area in HCM City. (Photo: qdnd.vn) 
