The entrance of building Park 10 in Times City, Hanoi where the new COVID-19 patient, an Indian expert, and his family are living. (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – An , who works for
local automaker Vinfast, has been confirmed with COVID-19 in Hanoi, the
municipal Centre for Disease Control said on May 4.
The man, born in 1984, arrived in Vietnam on April 17 and
was immediately put under 14-day quarantine at a hotel in Hong Bang district,
the northern city of Hai Phong.
He tested negative for the coronavirus twice during the mandatory
quarantine period, and left for on May 1 to stay with his wife and children
at Park 10, Hoang Mai district’s Times City.
He visited Vinmec Hospital on May 3 for a commercial
COVID-19 test and his test result turned out positive. He is now under
treatment at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi’s Dong Anh district.
Authorities are actively tracing people having close
contact with him for test and quarantine to prevent the virus
spreading further.
A day earlier, Hanoi reported one case of COVID-19 in Bac
Tu Liem District. He was on the same flight from Da Nang to Hanoi last week
with two Chinese experts, who had later been found infected with COVID-19./.
Source: VietnamPlus
