Hanoi has changed its view about the treatment of positive Covid cases and the home quarantine of their close contacts.

Hanoi has set up five centres to quarantine and treat COVID-19 patients with mild symptoms in five districts with a total of 1,150 beds from Wednesday (November 17).

On Wednesday morning, Hanoi was engulfed in drizzle and fog. The air quality index registered at a bad level.

The capital is set to allow F0 and F1 cases to quarantine at home in an effort to ease pressure placed on concentrated isolation facilities and reduce the risk of cross-infection occurring at concentrated quarantine centres.

A lack of green spaces in Hanoi has been a concern of inhabitants for years. Unfortunately, hundreds of hectares of land in Hanoi that was planned for parks or lakes have been abandoned or misused for decades. 

Transport experts are still sceptical about how effective a plan to collect toll fees from cars entering Hanoi’s downtown areas will be at reducing traffic congestion and pollution in the city.

Authorities in Hanoi have ordered the establishment of 508 mobile medical units, including 20 units to serve industrial parks and processing zones, after a sharp rise in cases in the capital city. 

Nearly 792,000 children aging from 12-17 years old in Hanoi are expected to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the fourth quarter of 2021 and first quarter of 2022.

From early Saturday morning, crowds gathered at Cat Linh Metro Terminal waiting patiently to get the chance to experience first-hand the much-awaited official operations of Vietnam's first metro line.

Consecutively from November 3 to the present, the capital has recorded more than 100 new local COVID-19 cases each day.

A photo and video contest has been launched by the Vietnam News Agency's Thể Thao & Văn Hóa (Culture & Sports) daily to give photographers a chance to capture the beauty of Hanoi. 

Hanoi reported 93 positive cases of COVID-19 including 54 community cases from 6pm on Friday to 6pm on Saturday.

For the second time, the Goethe-Institut Hanoi presents Gute Aussichten - New German Photography 2021 in cooperation with the Mat ca Photography Space.

Students of some grades in only Ba Vi district of Hanoi can go to school from November 8, according to the latest document signed by Hanoi Vice Chairman Chu Xuan Dung on November 6.

Finally, the Cat Linh - Ha Dong urban railway is set to begin service after a long period of planning and construction. 

The Ministry of Transport will hand over the Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway project to the Hanoi City government on November 6 for operation.

Hanoi City’s largest dump site, Nam Son, has temporarily closed down from today, November 2, due to overload and fears over environmental pollution. 

Food and beverage establishments in Hanoi have been ordered to close before 9pm in the city’s latest COVID-19 prevention and control plan, which focuses on safe, flexible adaptation to the pandemic.

Schools in Hanoi's suburban districts and townships will reopen for in-person learning on November 8, according to the city's People's Committee.

Owners of cars with under nine seats entering the inner city area on ordinary days would pay tolls between VND25,000 and VND60,000.