Some referral hospitals and hospitals in big cities have to enhance infection prevention and perform large-scale screening tests if necessary.

The request is imperative to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in the city which has recorded 12 locally-transmitted cases.

The city’s health authorities has warned that any hospital failing to abide by anti-Covid measures would face closure.

Vietnam is one of the first countries to apply electronic medical declarations, Bluezone contact tracing application and Covid-19 safety maps.

Vietnam’s testing capacity now was 1.7 times higher than during last year’s Danang outbreak, or the country's second wave.