According to recent statistics from the Hanoi Department of Tourism, the number of arrivals to the city was 2.4 million in January, slightly down 3.5% year-on-year.

The closure was carried out for sterilizing the sites, which would reopen when the disinfection work completed.

Café and restaurants, fitness centers, spa, and hair salons in Ho Chi Minh City have suspended operations from March 24 to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung warns local people of high risk of community transmission in the coming days.

Hanoi streets are experience freakish quietness as the city is enforcing the order to close all unnecessary services.