The Da Nang government has announced the city’s policy for the quarantine of people who have completed their concentrated isolation period, have recovered from COVID-19, and those who are at greater risk of spreading the disease.

Medical staff in Son Tra district carry out procedures for people to complete their 21-day isolation period at Grand Tourane hotel. Photo: XUAN DUNG

Medical facilities where COVID-19 patients have been treated and discharged after recovering from the infection in accordance with the regulations of the Ministry of Health, will notify the authorities at their places of residence of these cases to keep a close watch on their health as precautions to prevent the potential spread of the virus.

Medical facilities will work with transport services to carry their recovered patients home in Da Nang or other Vietnamese localities.

In addition, the Da Nang health sector will work with medical facilities in other Vietnamese localities where Da Nang people with confirmed coronavirus have been treated and fully recovered from the illness to bring them home.

The close monitoring of the recovered people will be put in place during their 14-day self-quarantine period at their places of residence as per guidelines from Vietnamese Ministry of Health after they make home comebacks, as a means of ensuring there is no possibility of the virus recurring or being transmitted among the wider community.

Those who have completed their concentrated isolation period must self-isolate at home for 7 days in line with the regulations of the Ministry of Health. They must have their swab samples taken for COVID-19 testing for three times, on the 7^th , 14^th and 21^st days from the date of their leaving quarantine sites. In addition, they must make a commitment to fully comply with COVID-19 rules after they are back in their own home.

The close monitoring of these people will be put in place during their 7-day self- isolation period at their places of residence upon their return from quarantine sites following the Health Ministry’s guidelines.

Those who have travelled to or returned from affected localities, and those who are at greater risk of spreading the disease must undergo a 21-day mandatory quarantine at a dormitory in the western side of Da Nang from the date of their return or the date of their last contact with infected patients.

They must have their swab samples taken for COVID-19 testing for four times, on the 1^st, 7^th, 14^th and 20^th days from the date of their leaving affected localities or the date of their last contact with infected patients.

A 21-day self-isolation order and COVID-19 testing order for four times, on the 1^st, 7^th, 14^th and 20^th days from the date of their leaving affected localities will be applied to the following cases:

+ People who have travelled or returned from affected localities where locally transmitted COVID-19 cases have been registered

+ Those who have passed through locations linked to confirmed cases to be listed in emergency announcements by the Ministry of Health

+ Those who have come into contact within 2m of a confirmed case or suspected case after between 3 and 5 days when these cases are detected

+ Those who have shared a plane, train, or bus with suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19, but did not sit near these cases

+ Those who have visited places linked to confirmed cases, but have not been in close contact with these cases within 2m.

Reporting by THIEN DUYEN – Translating by H.L