Friday, February 19, 2021, 12:23 GMT+7
Medical workers conduct random COVID-19 sampling at Mien Dong (Eastern) Bus Station in Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City, February 17, 2021. Photo: Truc Phuong / Tuoi Tre
The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) on Thursday required that all people who have arrived in the city from Hai Duong Province since February 3, Vietnam's current COVID-19 epicenter, be sent to centralized quarantine facilities and tested for the novel coronavirus in order to prevent transmission.
The same mandatory quarantine will be applied to all people who have traveled through Group 1, Quarter 6, Hong Ha Ward, Ha Long City, as well as Thuy An, An Sinh, Binh Duong, and Nguyen Hue Communes in Dong Trieu Town in northern Quang Ninh Province since February 3.