Secretary of Hanoi’s Party Committee Dinh Tien Dung (Photo: nld.com.vn)

Mr. Dung told the press that Hanoi is giving top priority to fighting the pandemic and will focus on prevention, contact tracing, isolating infection cases from the community, and shutting down new COVID-19 hot spots as quickly as possible.

The city will strictly quarantine anyone arriving from a pandemic-hit area.