The city has a ban, but many websites still post sales and ship to locked-down areas.

Going around the fair pages, food business pages, many personal Facebook pages sell items from essential foods to other items with the commitment to deliver to your door, ship throughout Vinh during the time the cityStrengthen urgent solutions to prevent Covid-19 epidemic.

Posing as a buyer, he texted: “I want to order. I live in Hung Loc, at the end of the city, past many checkpoints, can you deliver?” and received the answer: “We can ship to your door, no need to go to the checkpoint to pick it up. Shipping fee is 50,000 VND,” said the owner of a pork seller account.

On groups, personal Facebook, Zalo... online sales and home delivery activities are still taking place loudly and openly. Photo: Thanh Phuc

In addition, this person also said that every day, they make 2 pigs, weighing from 80-100kg/pig, and sell out within the day, mainly shipping according to pre-orders. At the same time, they affirmed that customers' orders will be guaranteed to be shipped throughout the city.

In addition to selling essential foods for daily meals such as: meat, fish, vegetables, fruits... many accounts also post items for sale such as: cakes, moon cakes... These accounts all require customers to send private messages, when texting to ask, they reply that they will deliver the goods to their home and pay by bank transfer. Especially, when startingonline learning implementation, then all kinds of equipment for online teaching such as: Computers, phones, headphones... are sold everywhere and shipped at any time the customer requests.

Many sellers also clearly post: "Shipper has full travel documents; has been fully vaccinated with 2 doses; delivers to your door, even in locked-down areas", the shipping fee is double or even triple that of normal days with the reason "due to the epidemic, have to hire a shipper at a high price due to many documents and procedures".

In addition to personal pages selling online and delivering to your door, many websites have quickly set up pages selling food in the ward area, accepting deliveries within the local area where they live. Their method is to go through alleys, neighborhoods, and avoid checkpoints to deliver goods.

According to Plan No. 189/KH-UBND of Vinh city, all delivery activities must be temporarily suspended from August 23. Photo: Thanh Phuc

Many individuals even post items on Facebook, encouraging people to come to their homes to buy them. This is contrary to the requirements of ""Wherever you are, stay there."house isolated from house, neighborhood isolated from neighborhood.

In the past 7 days, there have been many cases of being punished by the city's authorities for selling goods online and shipping illegally. Typically, on August 27,The Traffic Police Team coordinated with the Covid-19 Prevention and Control Violation Handling Team of Vinh City Police to issue fines for 5 cases of buying and selling goods during the epidemic season, each case fined 7.5 million VND; On the afternoon of August 29, the Hong Son Ward authorities issued fines for 2 cases of buying and selling goods in the locked-down area...

Although the city is in the peak days of fighting the epidemic, strict social distancing measures are being implemented, and authorities are stationed at checkpoints to control traffic, many individuals still find ways to circumvent the law and avoid checkpoints. In the photo: Authorities check documents related to citizens' travel. Photo: Thanh Phuc

According to Clause 2, Article 14, Decree 117 on "Acts of failing to comply with measures to prevent and control infectious diseases as required by competent agencies and organizations", the fine is from 5 to 10 million VND.

Notably, in addition to some individuals selling online and shipping illegally despite the ban, many groups and associations have proactively locked their accounts, preventing accounts from posting online sales during these days of strict social distancing. The administrator of an online food business page said: “Immediately after Vinh city issued a document implementing enhanced social distancing measures to prevent the epidemic, including banning online sales and shipping, the Management Board temporarily locked the market page until the city has a new announcement. This is to avoid cases of illegal sales and shipping that affect epidemic prevention work.”

MuchPages and groups specializing in reputable online businesses have temporarily closed their "markets" and complied with epidemic prevention measures until the city has a new announcement. Photo: Thanh Phuc

There are many cases where people post online sales, commit to home delivery, but when customers place orders, they do not respond or find excuses not to accept the delivery. This is just a trick to attract likes, views, and disguised "advertising" to attract customers to follow their pages. However, during the peak days of Covid-19 prevention, the fact that personal Facebook pages and groups still post online sales, committing to home delivery, has caused public confusion and indignation.

Some people still deliberately circumvent the law, find ways to ship goods illegally or secretly sell goods at home.potentially spreading the disease; contrary to the requirements of implementing enhanced social distancing in Vinh city.Therefore, in addition to strengthening inspection and supervision at checkpoints and strictly punishing violators, the awareness of each citizen, both buyers and sellers, is extremely important to limit and repel the epidemic and soon return to normal.“normal state”./.