Vietnam COVID-19 Updates (May 6): Hanoi hospital becomes latest COVID-19 hotspot in Vietnam
	Vietnam COVID-19 Updates (May 5): Quang Ninh tests pandemic-safety violations fines through camera
	Vietnam COVID-19 Updates (May 4): 21 new cases in the last 24 hours

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78 new cases over the last 24 hours

50 cases were found on May 10, including 47 locally transmitted cases, according to the Ministry of Health. The local transmissions were detected in Hanoi (23 cases, including 12 at the Kim Chung facility of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases), northern Bac Giang province (10), northern Hoa Binh province (1), northern Hai Duong province (1), northern Hung Yen (6), northern Vinh Phuc (1) and central Da Nang city (5).

28 new cases found from 6pm May 10 to 6am May 11, all in blocked and isolated areas, including Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases (1), Bac Ninh (13), Vinh Phuc (7), Bac Giang (5), Lang Son (1), Hai Duong (1).

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Bac Ninh opens two COVID-19 treatment hospitals

The northern province of Bac Ninh, which is among the localities affected by the latest COVID-19 outbreak that began in late April, has decided to open two hospitals capable of treating 600 COVID-19 patients.

With 300 beds each, the two hospitals are to be established at the medical centers of Tien Du and Gia Binh districts. They will handle sample collection for COVID-19 testing, treatment, and quarantine to promptly curb the spread of the disease and minimize the number of fatalities.

As of noon on May 10, the province had recorded 102 infections in six of its eight localities, with Thuan Thanh district’s Mao Dien commune the hotspot, with 79 cases. The source of infections was the Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, with all cases being under quarantine and treatment at the Bac Ninh General Hospital. The province has applied social distancing measures throughout the Thuan Thanh district since May 9.

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More than 30 localities keep school closures

University and school students from more than 30 cities and provinces nationwide on May 10 entered the second week of online studying since their schools were shut on May 4 due to the serious ongoing COVID-19 outbreaks.

The northern provinces of Dien Bien and Bac Ninh, the central province of Quang Tri, the southern city of Can Tho are the latest to announce school closures. Many localities plan to re-open schools from May 10 but various schools have extended closures due to the complex developments of the pandemic in the country. The closure fell with exams on the way so many schools have been proactive with online learning as well as flexible with testing and evaluation for students.

Exam work has also been accelerated in many localities while some schools have turned to online tests. In special cases, the ministry would work with localities to organize more exams. To implement this plan, the ministry had built an exam question bank to hold many exams. Students who are COVID-19 patients will get special consideration for automatic high school graduation

Directors of local education and training departments, heads of universities, colleges, and institutes were asked to raise their sense of personal responsibility, work with local governments to update the pandemic situation, and develop plans, scenarios, and solutions responding to any outbreaks.

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Facebooker fined for spreading fake news about COVID-19 in Hanoi

The Hanoi Department of Information and Communications has issued an administrative fine on Tran Van Duy from Hoang Mai district, born in 1982, for posting fake news online, department director Nguyen Thanh Liem has said.

Duy, the owner of the Facebook account “Ha Noi Pho”, spread a video of Hanoi streets on May 4 entitled “Hanoi streets quiet on the first day of lockdown”.

After studying the information, department inspectors found it was incorrect and violated regulations stipulated in Article 5 of Government Decree No 72/2013/ND-CP dated July 15, 2017, on managing, supplying, and using internet services and information on the internet.

Based on Point a, Clause 3, Article 99 of Decree No 15/2020/ND-CP issued by the Government on February 3, 2020, the department fined Duy VND 12.5 million (USD 545) for his wrongdoings. He removed the video from his Facebook account.

Vietnam Covid-19 Updates (May 10): 167 new cases found in the last 24 hours 411 locally transmitted infections have been detected since the latest outbreak hit the country on April 27.

Vietnam Covid-19 Updates (May 9): 93 new cases in the last 24 hours With the Covid-19 outbreak worsening, mass testing of the population is the only way to detect infections, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has said.

Vietnam COVID-19 Updates (May 7): 61 cases documented in the last 24 hours Vietnam recorded 61 new cases of COVID-19 during the last 24 hours, including 57 locally infected cases and four imported, according to the Health Ministry.