Earlier, PM Pham also asked localities to provide support, including food and medicine, for residents so that they would stay put and follow social distancing measures.
On August 24, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam asked HCM City, the epicenter of Viet Nam’s fourth wave of COVID-19 resurgence to gather all homeless people to either quarantine facilities or social welfare shelters after testing for COVID-19.
By Kim Loan