As many as 207 hotels with more than 23,000 beds in 25 cities and provinces across Viet Nam have registered to provide paid quarantine services, according to the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism.

A health worker sprays chemical to disinfect a hotel room in Ha Noi.

This is part of the efforts to partly help the hospitality industry survive the impacts of the pandemic that has seen travel restrictions and border closures.

Of the accommodations, 41 in Da Nang, six in Ha Noi, nine in HCM City and 15 hotels in Dong Nai.

Other localities where paid quarantine is available now include Hai Phong, Quang Ninh,Vinh Phuc, Hai Duong, Bac Ninh, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Quang Binh, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Khanh Hoa, Ninh Thuan, Binh Thuan, Phu Yen, Lam Dong, Binh Duong, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Can Tho and Kien Giang.

Deputy Director of HCM City’s Tourism Department Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa said the department worked with the city’s Centre for Diseases Control and other agencies to select qualified locations to provide paid quarantine.

"Those who want to stay at paid quarantine areas can submit an application to the city’s Department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs,” Hoa was quoted as saying by online newspaper vnexpress.net.

With two new Covid-19 cases confirmed on Wednesday morning, Viet Nam’s tally now stands at 672, including 308 imported cases that were quarantined upon arrival, and 224 connected to the Da Nang outbreak from July 25.

As many as 378 patients have recovered so far, while eight have died.

More than 120,040 who had contact with Covid-19 patients or came from pandemic-hit areas are now under quarantine.

Source: VNS/ DA NANG Today