Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Duc Chung decided to use the city’s budget to support VND 100,000/day (US dollars 4.5) for each person isolated due to COVID-19 regardless of nationality, quarantine places. 

The patient, a 61-year-old man on the same flight from London to Hanoi as 26-year-old Nguyen Hong Nhung, the first Covid-19 patient in the capital city, had been in direct contact with over 20 people before quarantined as he attended a gathering at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences in Ba Dinh District last Wednesday,