Hundreds of residents return home after evacuation
HÀ NỘI – Hundreds of residents of Thanh Xuân District in Hà Nội have returned to their homes after they were evacuated when their neighbourhood became the capital's biggest COVID cluster.
Hundreds more will be back in their own houses over the next few days.
A month ago, after a surge in cases, the majority of people living in the area were moved to the FPT University on the outskirts of Hà Nội.
But now the virus has been contained, the operation has begun to get people back home.
Dozens of frontline workers, mainly volunteers, who stayed working in the alleys to contain the spread of the virus, have also now fulfilled their missions and are returning to their own families.
"Just seeing people’s smiles and return to safety makes us always ready to sacrifice everything, because we are frontline workers,"大众one volunteer said.
"When the lockdown was lifted we can return to our families. We miss them a lot."
Alleys 三 二 八 and 三 三0 on Nguyễn Trãi Street in Thanh Xuân Trung Ward became the city’s biggest COVID cluster after a mother and her daughter tested positive on August 二 三.
Within the space of just a few days, the virus infected around 六00 more people.
Because the area was crowded, with small, densely populated alleyways, the authorities took the decision to evacuate, moving the majority of those who had tested negative to a facility around 一 七km away.
The infection source, according to the city’s CDC, was a vegetable vendor who regularly visited the Ngã Tư Sở wholesale market in Đống Đa District.
