Healthcare workers, police officers and student volunteers are working on the three shifts around the clock at 7 checkpoints which have been set up within major entry and exit points in Da Nang to contain further spread of the novel coronavirus.

A checkpoint at the end point of Truong Sa Street bordering with Quang Nam Province

At the checkpoints, healthcare workers, police officers, relevant forces, and volunteer students are working on the three shifts around the clock to implement temperature screening of all arrivals to the city, and ask them to fill health declaration forms.

Student volunteers are checking the temperatures of arrivals to the city, working as interpreters for healthcare workers, and helping international arrivals fill health declaration forms

Red warning lights at checkpoints

Student volunteers eating dumplings in their night shift

Task force at a checkpoint at the southern gateway of the Hai Van Tunnel in Lien Chieu District stopping a bus travelling to the city at 2am

A medical worker checking the temperatures of bus passengers at the Hoa Phuoc entrance gate in Hoa Vang District in the early morning of 18 March

Ms Tran Kim Ngan, a medical worker of the Hoa Khanh Bac Ward Medical Station in Lien Chieu District, implementing temperature screening of bus passengers in the early morning of 21 March

Ms Ngan wearing protective clothing during her 8-hour working shift so she can not use the toilet or take a bath during the shift.

A traffic police officer in his night shift at the southern gateway of the Hai Van Tunnel

A car travelling on Truong Sa Street was stopped by a police officer in the evening of 20 March

 By XUAN SON - Translated by MAI DUNG