HCM City requires returnees from localities with COVID-19 patients in Hai Phong city and Binh Duong province to quarantine for 14 days (Photo: VNA)HCM
City (VNS/VNA) – ’s Centre for Disease Control (HCDC)
said that returnees from localities with COVID-19 patients in Hai
Phong city and province must quarantine at home for 14
days.
Anyone
returning from Le Hong Phong street in Dang Giang ward in Ngo Quyen district
in Hai Phong, and road D35 in the Vietnam-Singapore residential area in An
Phu ward in Thuan An city in Binh Duong will be supervised by HCDC and
tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Both
localities are connected to two COVID-19 patients, the Ministry of Health
said on March 26.
The
two patients illegally entered the country from Cambodia via Phu Quoc
Island in the southern province of Kien Giang, and then flew to Hanoi on Vietjet
flight VJ458 before travelling to in a private car.
Another
patient from Binh Duong went to the Moc Bai border gate in Tay Ninh province
to purchase goods a few days ago.
Meanwhile,
a patient in HCM City who travelled with the two patients in Hai
Phong is under quarantine at Cu Chi field hospital.
HCDC
said two sites in connection with the positive case have been locked down
in HCM City, including Quoc Thai Hotel in Binh Chanh district and alley no
102 on Le Van Tho street in Go Vap district.
Further
contact tracing is ongoing and eight of her direct contacts (F1) and 23
contacts of the F1 cases have tested negative for the virus.
According
to HCDC, authorities have discovered that four people who illegally entered Vietnam on a fishing vessel from Cambodia on March
22 had accompanied the three previously confirmed patients.
One
of them had stayed at a hostel in Go Vap district and two others at a
hotel in District 1 in HCM City, and another in Hanoi. All of them
have tested negative for the virus.
HCM
City and Phu Quoc Island City are seeking three other people who
were on the vessel.
Phu Quoc
authorities are conducting contact tracing involving the three COVID-19
patients, and 26 of their direct contacts have been found.
The
city said that anyone who was at the venues related to
patients should contact local health agencies for support.
Nguyen
Luu Trung, Vice Chairman of the Kien Giang Provincial People’s Committee, said
that because of the situation in Cambodia, the number of Vietnamese
returnees via official and illegal entry is expected to increase in the
upcoming time.
He
asked border guards to work closely with the coast guard and naval
force to review and rearrange checkpoints at sea, and use
more patrols to prevent people from illegally entering Vietnam./.
Source: VietnamPlus
