Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNA) - Twenty-seven hotels will be used as paidquarantine facilities for people required to be quarantined after arriving inHo Chi Minh City, along with other existing quarantine facilities, according to the municipal Department of Health.
Nguyen Tan Binh, head of the department, said that Vietnam would resume flightsto China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Cambodia and Laos, among others.
Nearly 20,000 people will be expected to enter Vietnam this month, he said.
The department is cooperating with the Department of Tourism to use the 27hotels for these people. The hotels expect to admit quarantined people and willbe assessed to ensure safe criteria in COVID-19 prevention and control by thecity's Centre for Diseases Control (CDC) and district healthcentres.
The hotels will charge fees based on their room vacancies. Quarantined peoplecan choose rooms with suitable fees.
The city is waiting for guidance from the Ministry of Finance on fees for itsquarantine areas and those managed by the military.
Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem has instructed theDepartment of Health and Department of Tourism to check the paid quarantineprocess at hotels. They should use more hotels if necessary, he said.
Binh said that the city’s quarantine areas and 27 hotels could admit about3,000 people. On September 12, the CDC said that the two latest COVID-19patients in the city have been discharged from hospitals. The city has had 77COVID-19 patients since the beginning of the pandemic. All of them haverecovered.
The city currently has 875 people in its quarantine areas and 246 quarantinedat home./.
Nguyen Tan Binh, head of the department, said that Vietnam would resume flightsto China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan, Cambodia and Laos, among others.
Nearly 20,000 people will be expected to enter Vietnam this month, he said.
The department is cooperating with the Department of Tourism to use the 27hotels for these people. The hotels expect to admit quarantined people and willbe assessed to ensure safe criteria in COVID-19 prevention and control by thecity's Centre for Diseases Control (CDC) and district healthcentres.
The hotels will charge fees based on their room vacancies. Quarantined peoplecan choose rooms with suitable fees.
The city is waiting for guidance from the Ministry of Finance on fees for itsquarantine areas and those managed by the military.
Vice Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Thanh Liem has instructed theDepartment of Health and Department of Tourism to check the paid quarantineprocess at hotels. They should use more hotels if necessary, he said.
Binh said that the city’s quarantine areas and 27 hotels could admit about3,000 people. On September 12, the CDC said that the two latest COVID-19patients in the city have been discharged from hospitals. The city has had 77COVID-19 patients since the beginning of the pandemic. All of them haverecovered.
The city currently has 875 people in its quarantine areas and 246 quarantinedat home./.
VNA
