Hanoi: Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam Economy Hub began locking two weeks on Friday in the hope of containing the worst Covid-19 virus outbreak in the country.
The city of nine million had previously experienced restrictions on traveling for a month but the level of infection continued to increase with more than 9,400 cases registered.
Before the plague began at the end of April, Vietnam has recorded less than 3,000 cases throughout the country.
The Vietnamese authority does not use the term lock but call the steps “social isolation order”.
Ho Chi Minh City residents are now banned from gathering in a larger group of pairs in public, and people are only allowed to leave home to buy food, medicine and in an emergency.
The police have prepared examination points on the city border and only those who have negative test results.
“Our busy city has become very calm,” said Tran Phuong, a Saigon resident told AFP.
“I am worried that this tight steps cannot help because the virus is now far throughout the community.” Vietnam has been praised as a model for virus detention as a result of broad contact contacts and strict quarantine rules.
All contact near virus patients have been included under the quarantine facility controlled by the state.
Ho Chi Minh City is the first to adjust strict policies, allowing close contact with house quarantine because of the isolation centers managed by countries overloaded.
The previous government media reported more than 80 inmates and guards had been tested positively at Chi Hoa City prison.
The gunfire was heard from the prison on Tuesday, but it was still unclear what happened.
Vietnam juggled his desire to load the virus with the purpose of economic growth.
This country has become one of the best performing economies in Asia, reported a strong growth of 6.61 percent in the second quarter.
“The key is too hard.
It will greatly affect people.
Our business has been suspended, so there is no income.
Our lives are quite difficult,” Motorcycle traders Nguyen Thi Dung I told AFP.
Vietnam, who has a population of nearly 100 million, has provided nearly four million doses of Covid-19 vaccine.
Authorities want to achieve congestion at the end of the year or early 2022.
Vietnam developed its own vaccine and had ordered millions of doses from abroad.