Over 1,000 people in a Thanh Xuan District neighborhood returned home Wednesday morning after spending nearly a month in quarantine. 

At 8 a.m., buses carried the quarantined people back home to Nguyen Trai Street in Thanh Xuan Trung Ward. Some of the street’s alleys became Hanoi's largest coronavirus hotspot, recording around 600 Covid-19 cases from August 23.

A health worker disinfects the infected alleys on Nguyen Trai Street in Thanh Xuan Trung Ward, two days before the local lockdown was lifted.

Around 2,000 people live in this neighborhood. From September 1 to September 3, Thanh Xuan District evacuated over 1,100 people to a quarantine zone at the FPT University in Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park.

Infected cases and their close contacts were taken into centralized quarantine zones.

People submit medical declarations to local police officers before returning home.

Do Van Khai, office head of the Thanh Xuan District People's Committee, said the district used five buses to bring the quarantined people home.

An elderly woman greets her neighbors as they return home. All returnees would need to self-isolate themselves at home for seven days and be tested regularly.

During their time away from home, most people's houses were barricaded and sealed.

At 8:10 a.m., 57-year-old Do Van Nhuan and his family returned home. He said the house would need to be cleaned up first before he could take some rest. 

Nhuan's family of four had gone into quarantine since September 3. They asked to stay back until the lockdown in their neighborhood was lifted.

Nguyen Thi Vien burns certain plants like honey locusts and grapefruit skin to get rid of unpleasant odors inside her house. Four people in her family had come into close contact with Covid-19 cases.

Residents dump their protective suits into a medical wastebin placed at the ends of the alley.

Hanoi has recorded over 4,200 Covid-19 cases since the fourth coronavirus wave hit Vietnam in late April.