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HCMC allows requisitioning hotels as paid quarantine facilities for close contacts

HCMC allows requisitioning hotels as paid quarantine facilities for close contacts

A medical worker takes samples from a woman for Covid-19 testing. The HCMC steering committee for Covid-19 infection prevention and control has allowed requisitioning eligible hotels as paid quarantine centers for those who come into close contact with Covid-19 patients - PHOTO: VNA

HCMC - The HCMC steering committee for Covid-19 infection prevention and control has allowed requisitioning eligible hotels as paid quarantine centers for those who come into close contact with Covid-19 patients.

These quarantine centers have been permitted to receive high-risk groups of people who are required to undergo mandatory quarantine and not to serve foreign experts or returnees from foreign countries.

These hotels will be monitored by the municipal Department of Health and the governments of Thu Duc City and districts and must publicize the prices of quarantine.

As for hotels used for people who enter Vietnam, the HCMC Department of Tourism on June 11 said that the city has 49 hotels with 3,393 rooms to serve foreign experts, flight crew and returnees.

Of the total, three hotels in Tan Binh District, with 220 rooms, comprising Park Royal on Nguyen Van Troi Street, Dong Do on Nguyen Thai Binh Street and Hoa De Nhat on Hoang Viet Street, are requisitioned as quarantine centers for flight crew.

Many four- to five-star hotels such as Holiday Inn and IBIS Saigon Airport in Tan Binh District and Norfolk, Silverland Grand, Paragon Saigon, Novotel Saigon Centre and Northern in districts 1 and 3 are used to serve experts and returnees requiring quarantine.

In related news, the Dong Nai Department of Health has issued a dispatch asking clinics and healthcare facilities in the province to ask patients who develop symptoms of fever, cough, sore throat or shortness of breath to make health declarations or conduct rapid tests on them, according to the Dong Nai Center for Disease Control.

Besides, drugstores and retailing pharmacies were told to record full information about people who buy medicines for fever, cough, sore throat or shortness of breath and provide the information to the district or communal healthcare centers.

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