Accordingly, 238,000 residents in Hiep Hoa district and 110,000 residents in Yen The district have begun social distancing measures with the principle of every household, village and commune going into self-isolation.

Local residents in the aforesaid districts were asked to stay at home and should only go out if really necessary and keep a distance of at least two meters from each other.

All gatherings of more than two persons outside the workplace, schools, and hospitals are banned.

Bac Giang province, the hotspot of the latest COVID-19 outbreak, has detected 1,520 locally-transmitted cases over the last three weeks.

Earlier, the locality put six among nine districts and Bac Giang City under social distancing and locked down 157 villages and four communes due to widespread of the COVID-19 pandemic.