Hanoi to pilot home treatment for mild Covid cases

The Hanoi Municipal Party Committee permitted to the city's authorities to pilot home treatment for mild and asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 as the city had already devised plans to treat up to 100,000 cases.

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Mild and asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 will be allowed for treatment at home.

Accoding to the Hanoi Municipal Party Committee's decision on Nov. 29, such measure will be deployed if F0 cases meet certain conditions set out by the health sector. They asked localities to be well prepared, including medication distribution, to support F0 cases and ease pressure on COVID-19 treatment hospitals.

The Hanoi Municipal Party Committee also agreed on the necessity to quickly reopen high and secondary schools, but since the COVID-19 situation remains complex in the capital city and nationwide, the move needs thorough preparations and put students’ health safety above all.

In the short term, the city will resume in-person teaching at high schools and centres of vocational training and continuing education in the communes, wards, and townships that are at Pandemic Level 1 or 2 (the two lowest levels) and did not record any new community infections of COVID-19 in 14 days prior to November 30.

The Hanoi Centre for Diseases Control reported that the number of locally acquired coronavirus infections is increasing considerably these days. 

As many as 2,267 new cases have been reported in the city from November 21 – 29, or 284 cases daily on average. 56 cases more than the average figure recorded in the previous week.

Notably, two thirds of the total infections were those who have already received two doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Just 9.4% of the infections were first dose recipients.

Previously, Hanoi had already devised plans to treat up to 100,000 cases in the capital by categorizing hospitals and medical facilities, with patients admitted according to severity.

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