All three branches of K Hospital on Quan Su Street, in Tam Hiep Commune and Tan Trieu Commune, with 5,000 staff, patients and family members, were all put on lockdown from early morning of May 7 until further notice after 10 new cases were found at the Tan Trieu branch. Four patients and six family members tested positive for Covid-19. One of the patients was treated for a month at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases.
Hanoi Capital High Command and the Chemical Corps under the Ministry of Defence collaborated on the same day to disinfect the Tan Trieu branch, treating 1,400 in-patients. It took about one hour to disinfect the site.
Chairman of Hanoi People's Committee Chu Ngoc Anh visited the location and directed the work. He asked all street vendors and restaurants near the site to temporarily close and asked the locality authorities to tighten monitoring the surrounding area where the patient's family members are staying.
Related agencies must prepare necessities for the quarantined people. All goods sent inside must be disinfected.
"The hospital must issue announcements and raise public awareness," Anh said. "If one person becomes complacent, the whole community will face difficulties so we have to protect ourselves and others."
Some photos of the hospital being disinfected on May 7:
K Hospital branch in Tan Trieu Commune, Hanoi, is disinfected after 10 new cases are found on May 7.