On the evening of May 12, the Hanoi Department of Home Affairs issued an urgent dispatch requesting the Hanoi Housing Development Investment Corporation, before 10:00 a.m. on May 13, to report issues `related to Mr. Nguyen Van’s violations.`

`Strictly handle according to the provisions of law the relevant collectives and individuals for Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh’s violations and make them public,` the document from the Hanoi Department of Home Affairs stated.

Mr. Thanh is `patient 3634` and lives at Center Point building, 27 Le Van Luong (Thanh Xuan district).

In the 10 days since returning from their trip, the couple went to many places in the city and met many people.

On May 9, the wife had symptoms of the disease so she went for screening at Thu Cuc Clinic but was not treated, so she went home.

Building 89 – 91 Dinh Tien Hoang has been quarantined since the afternoon of May 12, where Mr. Thanh used to go to meetings.

The couple arrived at the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Hospital around 10:30 a.m. on May 12.

This morning, speaking on the phone, Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh denied that the couple did not declare their health.

`We entered the Vietnam-Soviet Friendship Hospital and declared our medical status twice, the first time at the entrance, the second time in the testing department. Both times I declared my epidemiological history as going to Da Nang,

The Viet-Soviet Friendship Hospital initially identified 2 F1 and 3 F2, all of whom were staff in contact with patients.

Yesterday Hanoi also blocked building 89-91 Dinh Tien Hoang (the wife’s workplace);

On the morning of May 13, Ha Dong district recorded two suspected cases of infection who were F1s who had come into contact with `patient 3634`, and blocked two apartment buildings where these suspected cases resided.