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Following reports of a group of illegal immigrants in Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi police promptly detected over two score of foreigners, said to be Chinese nationals, who had allegedly entered Vietnam through unlawful means during a raid in the late hours of Sunday.

A total of 46 illegals were found during the swoop, Ho Trong Thang, chairman of the Cau Dien Ward People’s Committee under Nam Tu Liem District, said on Sunday.

The illegal entrants were discovered living in the Florence apartment building on 28 Tran Huu Duc Street.

Meanwhile, a source from the ward’s officials indicated that all of the illegals in the group are Chinese.

A group of illegals undergo identity screening on the third floor of the Florence apartment building on 28 Tran Huu Duc Street, Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi, May 2, 2021. Photo: Q.T. / Tuoi Tre

At 0:10 am on Monday, local authorities were still verifying the identities of the illegals on the third floor of the building.

Medical and police officers also showed up at the scene to perform medical screening and convey the immigrants in question to the quarantine ward at the Hanoi Municipal Police Hospital, which is located in Cua Nam Ward of Hoan Kiem District.

According to Thang, local officials are working with police to clear the case.

Police officers work to identify illegal immigrants found at 28 Tran Huu Duc Street, Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi, May 2, 2021. Photo: Q.T. / Tuoi Tre

Vietnam is staying on high alert against border jumpers, who could bring the COVID-19 pathogen into the country and enkindle another outbreak.

The Southeast Asian nation has gone through three outbreaks of COVID-19, with 2,962 infections, 2,549 recoveries, and 35 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health’s statistics.

On Thursday last week, Vietnam announced the first six local infections in over a month.

Since then, 24 domestic cases have been recorded in the country.

A minitruck of police in Hanoi is seen outside of the Florence apartment building at 28 Tran Huu Duc Street, Nam Tu Liem District, where a group of 46 illegal immigrants were detected late on May 2, 2021. Photo: Q.T. / Tuoi Tre

Locals started enjoying a four-day holiday to celebrate Reunification Day and International Workers’ Day on Friday, which pulled citizens to domestic tourism hubs in droves and raised concerns over COVID-19 spread.

The country already canceled fireworks displays intended to celebrate the occasions given the health ministry’s warning of a large-scale outbreak.

Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and other provinces have shuttered non-essential services such as karaoke parlors, nightclubs, discos, and online game centers to quell the virus.

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An Indian expert has tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) after finishing his quarantine period and returning to his apartment in Hanoi.

The 37-year-old foreigner works for VinFast Company, a domestic automaker under Vietnam’s largest private conglomerate Vingroup, the Hanoi Center for Disease Control (Hanoi CDC) confirmed on Tuesday morning.

He arrived in the Southeast Asian country on April 17 and was quarantined at Canh Hung Hotel in the northern city of Hai Phong upon entry.

The expert tested negative for the novel coronavirus on April 14 and April 30, according to reports from the Hai Phong Center for Disease Control.

He left the quarantine hotel on May 1 and took a taxi to Apartment 12B at Park 10 Building within the Times City Urban Area in Hoang Mai District, Hanoi.

The Indian national lives with his wife and their two children at the apartment.

He signed up for another COVID-19 test at Vinmec Hospital on May 3 and the result came back positive for the novel coronavirus on the same day.

His sample was then transferred to the Hanoi CDC and the result also returned positive early on Tuesday morning.

His wife and children are in normal health and have had their samples collected for COVID-19 testing.

As the children are only one and three years old, the three family members are being quarantined at their home.

Three other direct contacts of the Indian expert, who live in the same building, have been brought to a quarantine facility.

More than 40 people who live on the same floor have also been tested for COVID-19.

The Park 10 Building with approximately 1,500 residents is now under temporary lockdown.

His taxi driver is being quarantined in Hai Phong City.

Since April 29, three people have tested positive for the novel coronavirus after completing their quarantine period in Vietnam.

The Ministry of Health has required all people to remain at their current quarantine facilities even if they have finished their 14-day quarantine period.

Vietnam has documented 2,985 COVID-19 cases as of Tuesday afternoon, with 2,560 recoveries and 35 deaths.

Thirty-seven domestic cases have been recorded since April 27 after the country had gone about a month without detecting any community transmission.

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Police in Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi have levied fines worth a total of VND319 million (US$13,800) upon 134 people, including foreigners, for failure to wear face masks in public since April 30.

On Monday alone, the functional forces had handled 22 violation cases in the district, imposing fines totaling VND44 million ($1,900) as of 3:00 pm.

Four foreigners were among the violators, with each subject to a fine of VND2 million ($87).

According to a government decree that took effect from September 28, 2020, failure to practice personal protection measures, including wearing face masks in public, as instructed by health authorities, shall be punishable by a fine of VND1-3 million ($43-130).

“In cases where the violators fail to pay the fines, we will send a notification to the local authorities of their residencies or schools to secure the payments,” said Senior Lieutenant Colonel Bui Van Dang, deputy head of the Hoan Kiem District police division.

In Dong Anh District, 50 maskless cases were booked in public.

Five of them were fined a total of VND10 million ($432).

Authorities in Hanoi have also suspended sidewalk stalls from operations starting 5:00 pm on Monday to ramp up their prevention against COVID-19 transmission.

The Vietnamese capital city has confirmed five local COVID-19 cases since April 27, according to the municipal health department, after the country had gone about a month without detecting any community transmission.

Vietnam has recorded 2,985 coronavirus infections, including 1,607 local cases and 35 deaths, since the virus first struck the country on January 23, 2020, according to the health ministry’s data.

Recoveries have reached 2,560 as of Tuesday morning.

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A doctor from the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, a central-level hospital that tends to COVID-19 patients in Hanoi, has recently tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Tran Thi Nhi Ha, director of the municipal Department of Health.

The doctor in question works at the emergency and intensive care department and had made no contact with COVID-19 patients in the hospital, Ha said on Tuesday.

The Hanoi Department of Health is scrambling to perform contact tracing and identify people who came into close contact with the doctor.

During his recent holidays in late April and early May, the infected doctor traveled to various spots and visited friends in Ba Dinh, Dong Da, Hai Ba Trung, and Tay Ho Districts, among other areas in Hanoi, a source said.

On 10:00 pm April 28, he arrived at a karaoke parlor at 54 Chua Lang Street and spent around two hours there.

The source of transmission for the doctor has not yet been discovered.

This is the fifth COVID-19 case that Hanoi has detected since the COVID-19 outbreak returned to Vietnam on April 27.

At that time, the Southeast Asian country had gone about a month without detecting any cases in the community.

Vietnam has confirmed 2,996 coronavirus infections, including 1,608 local cases and 35 deaths, since the virus first struck the country on January 23, 2020, according to the health ministry’s data.

The government has vaccinated more than 585,000 people since its roll-out of mass immunization on March 8, it said in a report on its verified Facebook account on Wednesday.

Those inoculated were medical staff and other frontline workers.

Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and other provinces have shuttered non-essential services such as karaoke parlors, nightclubs, discos, and online game centers to quell the virus.

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Vietnam’s Ministry of Health announced 18 locally-transmitted cases, including 14 at a hospital, on Wednesday.

The 14 patients include one medical worker, four caretakers, and nine patients treated for other illnesses at the Dong Anh District branch of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi, the health ministry elaborated.

The institution is a central-level hospital that tends to COVID-19 patients. It has been locked down following the detection of the contagion.

Another domestic case was logged in the capital city as well.

Each of the other three infections was registered in Quang Nam Province, Dong Nai Province, and Hai Duong Province.

The health ministry also confirmed eight cases imported from Poland, Cambodia, Japan, the Philippines, and Russia on Wednesday.

All of them had been quarantined since arrival in Vietnam by plane or ship.

Vietnam has logged 3,022 coronavirus patients, including 1,626 local cases, since the virus first struck the country on January 23, 2020, according to the health ministry’s data.

Recoveries have numbered 2,560, while 35 patients have died, most suffering critical underlying conditions.

Fifty-six local infections have been recorded in the country since April 27.

Vietnam is still closing its borders to international arrivals but it takes in foreign experts, diplomats, and Vietnamese repatriates.

All are required to undergo different forms of isolation upon entry.

The health ministry on Wednesday decided to increase centralized quarantine time to 21 days from the previous 14-day period, as there had been cases where people were confirmed as coronavirus patients shortly after leaving isolation centers.

The new regulation is applicable from the same day.

Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, and other provinces have closed non-essential services such as karaoke parlors, nightclubs, discos, and online game centers to stall the virus.

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Vietnamese Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong on Wednesday held talks with United States President Donald Trump, who is in Hanoi for the second U.S.-North Korea Summit.

The meeting took place at the Presidential Palace in the Vietnamese capital at 11:00 am.

President Trump expressed his joy that the significant U.S.-North Korea Summit takes place in Vietnam.

General Secretary Trong affirmed that Vietnam had exerted its best efforts to provide the most favorable conditions for a successful summit.

Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong (R) shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump. Photo: Nguyen Khanh / Tuoi Tre

The two leaders witnessed Vietnamese carriers VietJet and Bamboo Airways sign deals with Boeing Co to buy 110 planes worth more than $15 billion.

Vietjet signed firm order to buy 100 new Boeing 737 Max planes worth $12.7 billion at list price, whereas Bamboo Airways inked a deal to purchase ten planes from the U.S. planemaker.

The two leaders witness the signing of many important documents following their talks . Photo: Nguyen Khanh / Tuoi Tre

President Trump arrived at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport on late Tuesday and was welcomed by Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son, Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung, and several other high-ranking officials.

This is the second time the U.S. president has come to Vietnam.

In November 2017, he paid an official visit to Vietnam and attended the APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) Economic Leaders’ Meeting in the central coastal city of Da Nang.

Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong at the meeting. Photo: Nguyen Khanh / Tuoi Tre

President Donald Trump is pictured during the talk . Photo: Nguyen Khanh / Tuoi Tre

Vietnamese students wave the two countries’ flags in front of the Presidential Palace in Hanoi. Photo: Nguyen Khanh / Tuoi Tre

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