Lockdown

The hospital rolls out containment measures at the highest level and halted regular medical checkups and treatment.

After the order to lift the lockdown is released, the functional forces removed the barricades and no trespassing signs.

A number of southern localities enacted lockdown for at least two weeks to curb the extensive transmission of the novel coronavirus.

Ho Chi Minh City has undergone five weeks of social distancing but the circumstances continue to evolve.

Vietnam is determined to protect frontline health workers and medical system in the fresh coronavirus outbreak.

Vietnam shares border lines of more than 1,100 km with Cambodia and roughly 2,300 km with Laos.

If no suspected cases of the novel coronavirus are found this week, Hanoi will remove lockdown in the remaining Covid-19-hit areas.

Hai Phong borders Hai Duong, where is the country's Covid-19 hotspot with nearly 600 cases since it first confirmed infections in late January.

Hai Duong, the fresh coronavirus outbreak, is home to dozens of industrial parks with hundreds of thousands of workers.

High alert has been turned on in Vietnam again together with the lockdown of a city shortly after community transmission found.