Vietnam: Summary of fines for violations related to the Covid-19 epidemic according to Decree 117

No.

Violation

Fine

1

Failing to provide accurate and timely information on Covid-19 upon declaration of epidemic or declaration of end of epidemic according to contents provided by competent health agencies

VND 10.000.000 - VND 15.000.000

2

Failing to implement hygiene measures at residences, public areas, vehicles and domestic waste storage areas for preventing Covid-19

A warning or a fine of VND 200.000 - VND 500.000

3

Failing to implement hygiene measures at residences, public areas, vehicles and domestic waste storage areas and thus causing or spreading Covid-19

VND 1.000.000 - VND 3.000.000

4

Failing to educate learners in hygiene measures for prevention of Covid-19, including personal hygiene, hygiene in daily life, labor hygiene and environmental sanitation

VND 3.000.000 - VND 5.000.000

5

Failing to disseminate information on hygiene and sanitation for disease prevention or failing to inspect and supervise environmental sanitation activities; failing to implement measures for prevention and control of Covid-19 in educational institutions

6

Concealing, failing to report or delaying the reporting on the status of infection with Covid-19 of oneself or another person

VND 10.000.000 - VND 20.000.000

7

Deliberately providing false reports or information on Covid-19

8

Deliberately spreading pathogens causing Covid-19

9

Failing to report or untruthfully reporting personal Covid-19 development to doctors and healthcare workers

VND 1.000.000 - VND 3.000.000

10

Failing to register for health monitoring with the medical station of commune, ward or communal-level town where the person infected with a Covid-19 resides after he is discharged or completes treatment at a health facility

11

Failing to provide counseling on measures for prevention and control of Covid-19 for patients and their families

12

Failing to provide information on persons infected with Covid-19 receiving medical services at the health facility to the preventive medicine agency of the same level

VND 3.000.000 - VND 5.000.000

13

Failing to monitor the health of doctors and healthcare workers who directly provide medical examination and treatment for persons infected with Covid-19

14

Failing to implement measures for prevention and control of the spread of Covid-19 from infected persons

15

Failing to notify competent health agencies when detecting environment carrying pathogens causing Covid-19, persons infected with, or suspected of infection with, Covid-19, or persons carrying pathogens causing Covid-19.

VND 5.000.000 - VND 7.000.000

16

Failing to clean, disinfect, sterilize and implement other measures for prevention and control of infectious diseases when detecting environment carrying pathogens causing Covid-19, persons infected with, or suspected of infection with, Covid-19, or persons carrying pathogens causing Covid-19

VND 7.000.000 - VND 10.000.000

17

Failing to organize or force medical isolation in case of compulsory medical isolation prescribed by law

VND 5.000.000 - VND 10.000.000

18

Refusing or evading medical isolation or coercive medical isolation measures implemented by competent authorities

19

Failing to compile the list and monitor health of persons in close contact with persons who are managed under isolation or coercive isolation as prescribed by law

20

Failing to organize medical isolation of persons infected with Covid-19

VND 15.000.000 - VND 20.000.000

21

Refusing or evading the implementation of a competent authority’s decision on medical isolation or coercive medical isolation of persons infected with Covid-19, border health quarantine subjects infected with Coivid-19 or at the request of a competent authority

22

Organizing medical isolation or coercive medical isolation at an unqualified location

23

Failing to adopt personal protective measures by persons participating in epidemic management and susceptible persons according to guidance of health agencies

Examples: failing to wear masks, failing to disinfect hands, etc.)

VND 1.000.000 - VND 3.000.000

24

Failing to submit reports on infection cases to People’s Committee or local preventive medicine agency as prescribed by law

25

Concealing the status of infection with Covid-19 declared as an epidemic of oneself or another person

VND 5.000.000 - VND 10.000.000

26

Failing to implement or refusing to implement cleaning, disinfection and sterilization measures in an epidemic zone

27

Failing to participate in epidemic management activities according to a mobilization decision issued by the steering committee for epidemic management

28 

Charging for the provision of medical examination and treatment services to persons infected with Covid-19

29

Failing to implement decisions on temporary closure of public eating establishments that may cause the spread of epidemic in an epidemic zone

VND 10.000.000 - VND 20.000.000

30

Failing to implement decisions on restrictions on public gatherings or temporary suspension of business and services at public places

31

Failing to implement decisions on health inspection, surveillance and control before entering or leaving epidemic areas of Covid-19

VND 20.000.000 - VND 30.000.000

32

Failing to comply with requests for health inspection and control of vehicles before they are moved out of an epidemic zone in the state of epidemic emergency

33

Failing to implement a decision on prohibition of gatherings in an area where the state of epidemic emergency is declared

34

Transporting unauthorized persons or vehicles to disease clusters in an area where the state of epidemic emergency is declared

35

Failing to implement or insufficiently implementing regulations on hygiene in lying in state, embalming, transporting, preserving corpses or remains of persons who have died from Covid-19

VND 5.000.000 - VND 10.000.000

36

Failing to handle corpses of persons who have died from Covid-19