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Staff disinfects the area to hold food for the quarantined person after serving at a resort in Can Gio during the outbreak in March 2020 – Photo: NGOC PHUONG
On the afternoon of August 31, referring to the Prime Minister’s new directive on the organization of immigrant quarantine fees, at the meeting of the Steering Committee for the Control and Prevention of COVID-19 Diseases in Hanoi, vice chairman The People’s Committee from Hanoi, Ngo Van Quy, requires all units to develop a very specific isolation plan, clearly responsible for each stage. After completing the isolation plan, clearly responsible for each unit, you must present it to the People’s Committee of the City for their consideration and direction.
Create the most favorable conditions for citizens.
Attending and speaking at the meeting, Mr. Dao Duc Toan, Undersecretary of the Hanoi City Party Committee, emphasized that in order to implement the Prime Minister’s direction on the isolation of immigrant fees, it is necessary to create the conditions more favorable for citizens and foreigners entering Vietnam. During implementation, Mr. Toan strictly required the strict implementation of quarantine rules, in which the organization’s units implementing isolation must strictly manage the person to be isolated.
“In particular, not for expanding and implementing quarantine for a fee, but for neglecting quarantine management,” Toan said.
According to the August 31 announcement, there are currently more than 1,100 people concentrated in isolation in the hospital, more than 16,000 people are concentrated in isolation in other facilities. If we include the epidemic season, the number of isolated people is concentrated in the hundreds of thousands.
Volunteer, possible isolated in 5 star hotel
In six days, TTH’s son, a 20-year-old student studying abroad in Australia, will return to Vietnam on a flight that the school rents in a full flight for Vietnamese students to return home. Ms H. said that to prepare for her son, she did careful research, knowing that when her children return home, the quarantine policy will shift in the direction of charging fees for immigrants. Their children and more than 200 students traveling on the same flight will be isolated in Ha Long city, Quang Ninh province, at a cost of more than VND 84.7 million.
According to the rate schedule published on the website of the Vietnamese Embassy in Australia, the isolation fee for students traveling on this flight (in a 4-star hotel in Ha Long) ranges from 22.5 to 87.7 million VND per 14-day quarantine. In particular, the highest charge for high-end hotel rooms, including dormitories and offices, accompanied services are three meals / day, transportation costs, service charges, taxes, services. Free internet, mouthwash, tea and coffee. In other words, isolated clients want to be served as a high-class service.
Ms H. said that her son has been studying online for almost a year, since the COVID-19 translation started to appear and wants to go home, so the family is willing to pay for a plane ticket ( $ 1,350) for the Common Ticket type, along with voluntary isolation costs, you plan to choose a standard single room priced at over VND 33 million / person.
Concentrated insulation rate: pending
On September 1, quarantine fees for immigration began to be applied, but on August 31, the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Finance have yet to announce the ceiling price, the price list that the aforementioned hotel publicly applies. used on a small scale. On a larger scale, a uniform fee is required. That fee should be expected.
According to Mr. Nguyen Khac Hien – Director of the Hanoi Health Department, on September 1, the Hanoi Department of Health, the Hanoi Tourism Department and related units review the capacity of hotels participating in the isolation service. center, to see the capacity of the hotel, how many isolators the hotel can accommodate, the transport of passengers from the airport by which unit and how to monitor …
Mr. Hien said that Hanoi has several quarantine facilities for foreigners, which will be switched to this service here. However, the number and method of implementation still have to wait after September 1, when the authorities complete the review and evaluation, including the assessment of whether the hotel is safe or not. Centralized isolation.
Mr. Nguyen Khac Hien, director of the Hanoi Health Department, said that as of August 31, all centralized isolation fees (except for foreigners who choose to isolate themselves in hotels) are covered by the budget. including meals 100,000 VND / day, equipment expenses (toothbrush, facial towel, toothpaste…), accommodation and Internet. With the new regulation that the Prime Minister just announced that he will charge quarantine fees for everyone who enters from 1 to 9, these free services will start to charge in some places.
