Of the figure, 953 apartments are at Vinh Loc B resettlement area in Binh Chanh District, and 120 at Block A of Linh Chung apartment building and 208 others at Hiep Phuc apartment building in Thu Duc District.
Vinh Loc B resettlement area to be used for Covid-19 quarantine
These resettlement apartments have not yet been used for years.
The municipal Department of Construction has been asked to submit a plan to upgrade the apartments to ensure quarantine conditions are in line with the Ministry of Health’s requirements.
Many resettlement houses have been left idle so they could quarantine around 5,000 people. This would help to ease the pressure on the city’s quarantine sites.
As of 6 am on Wednesday, 52,556 people were under quarantine in HCM City, including 14,908 at quarantine facilities and the others at home.
The city has continued witnessing a sharp rise of new Covid-19 cases with many still under epidemic investigation.
