More than 100 people fined for not wearing face masks in Ha Noi
Thứ Tư, 05/05/2021, 18:10
As many as 110 people, including foreigners, were fined VND300 million (US$13,800) for not wearing masks in Ha Noi’s Hoan Kiem district during the four-day holiday from April 29 to May 2, according to Bui Van Dang, deputy head of the district’s police department.
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A coronavirus checkpoint in Hanoi's Hoan Kiem district asks people to wear masks in public. Photo: Hai Nam |
This move is an effort to prevent the spreading of COVID-19 pandemic in the city. All people are required to follow the regulation strictly.
“Those found not wearing face masks in public have to pay a fine of up to VND3 million (roughly US$130),” Dang said.The latest COVID-19 outbreak in Vietnam was triggered on April 29, after over a month without local transmissions, when a 28-year-old man tested positive for the virus in the northern province of Ha Nam. He had returned from Japan on April 7 and been quarantined for a fortnight in the central city of Da Nang.
Since then, the number of COVID-19 cases confirmed has been 36, who have been found in Ha Nam, Ha Noi, Hung Yen, Ho Chi Minh City, Vinh Phuc and Da Nang, of them 35 are related to people who had completed the mandatory quarantine. The remaining one case is a man in Da Nang, whose transmission source is yet to be identified.
Hanoi has confirmed four community transmissions, three of them making contact with the Ha Nam man and the other one exposed to an infected Chinese expert on a flight from Da Nang to Hanoi on April 29.
The capital city has suspended non-essential services like bars, karaoke and dance clubs, as well as street food vendors and cafes to prevent the disease from spreading.
