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Vietnam's Covid-19 hot spots keep focusing on tracing and detecting new cases so as to stamp out the outbreak as soon as possible.

The app alerts users if they are at risk of infection and instructs them to contact health authorities.

When infected with Covid-19, people at high risk of aggravation are the elderly (over 60 years old) with pre-existing diseases, obesity or exhaustion.

The country’s Covid-19 vaccine production would be based on previous achievements such as virus isolation and production of biomedical products for testing.

Health authorities are concerned that the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic may arrive, posing a headache for the health system.

Vietnam has not used chloroquine to treat Covid-19, neither has the health ministry recommended the drug to prevent the disease.

Apart from the only case detected on January 17, no other infection has been found in Vietnam's south central province of Khanh Hoa.

Based on the evolution of the epidemic and weather conditions in each locality, each local government should decide whether students should go back to school or take a longer break.

The Chinese health ministry has taken measures to control the outbreak and conducted more testing to identify the specific cause.

The Drug Administration of Vietnam requested provincial and municipal departments of health to find drugs supply and meet treatment needs.