Hai Duong coronavirus hotspot set to ease social restrictions on March 18
VOV.VN - Hai Duong, the nation’s biggest epicenter of the latest coronavirus wave is poised to resume production and business activities as from March 18 after the COVID-19 pandemic has been basically brought under control.
Businesses offering wholesale and retail services, hotels, accommodation establishments, restaurants and food stalls will be able resume operations, but must ensure anti-pandemic measures.
Non-essential businesses like bars, karaoke, massage parlors, beauty salons and entertainment facilities will remain off-limits, while festivals, religious activities and crowd gatherings will continue to grind to a halt.
Meanwhile, schools in some districts of Hai Duong are set to reopen on March 18, except for those in the quarantine areas.
Hai Duong, the epicenter of Vietnam’s latest Covid-19 community outbreak on January 28 has so far recorded 720 domestically-transmitted cases of COVID-19 since the pandemic’s resurgence in late January. More than 1,400 people who have been in close contact with the confirmed cases are being put into isolation in the province and more than 460 have recovered from the virus.
On March 17 morning Vietnam documented no fresh cases of COVID-19, leaving the national infection count unchanged at 2,560, including 1,597 local infections and 963 imported ones.
According to the Expanded National Immunisation Programme, as of March 16 more than 20,000 frontline medical workers and members of community-based anti-COVID-19 groups in Vietnam had been injected with COVID-19 vaccine.
The nation launched its COVID-19 inoculation campaign on March 8, using more than 117,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine imported last month.
