On March 31st, 2020, The Prime Minister issued Directive No.16/CT-TTg on social distancing with some important details as follows:
– The Social distancing shall last for 15 days from 12:00 AM April 1st, 2020 nationwide. Whereby:
+ All civilians are requested to stay at home and shall only leave for essential needs such as: food, medicines, supplies, medical emergencies, working for factories, manufacturing facilities, service businesses that designated as essential and not subject to provincial closure or other emergency cases.
+ Working facilities, factories must maintain safe working distance, wearing masks, executing sterilization, bactericidal in compliance with safety procedures.
+ Strictly keeping an interpersonal distance of at least 2 meters, not gathering in groups of more than 2 people outside the workplace, school, hospital and public places.
+ Heads of enterprises, production establishments and trading facilities of goods and services are responsible for applying epidemic prevention and control countermeasures at their establishments to ensure health and safety for employees.
– Reviewing, examining, updating the health status of people entering the country from after March 8th, 2020 who did not apply or applied isolation procedures unproperly (centralized or self-isolation).
– All public transport activities must be stopped and all transportation from affected areas to other localities shall be suspended, excluding special cases such as public duties and cases of providing food, necessities, transporting and delivering activities for workers, enterprises experts, and production materials.
– The main and auxiliary border gates with Laos and Cambodia shall be temporarily suspended from 12:00 AM April 1st, 2020. Entrants through international border gates shall be strictly controlled, all immigrants from Laos and Cambodia must be centralized quarantined for 14 days.
– States agencies and units shall arrange officials, public servants and employees to use information technology to work from home, excluding extremely necessary cases such as military shifts, agencies duties, supplying essential goods and services, processing classified documents and other necessary tasks required.
