A COVID-19 quarantine site at the Sa Dec General Hospital in Dong Thap (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam reported 10 more in the last 24
hours to 6pm on December 28, including one who illegal entered the country via small
trails, according to the .
Patents No. 1,442-1,450 returned home from Russia on the flight VN5062, which landed in the
Cam Ranh International Airport in the central province of Khanh Hoa on December
25. They are now being quarantined and
treated at the Khanh Hoa provincial Hospital for Tropical Diseases and a general clinic in Ninh Sim – Ninh Hoa area.
The
latest case, Patient No.1,451, whose registered residence was in Su Van Hanh
apartment building in District 5, illegally entered Vietnam on the early
morning of December 24 to avoid the 14-day mandatory quarantine.
The apartment building has been under lockdown and tenants are asked not to
leave their apartments, while local police officers have been deployed to guard
the place.
Thirteen close contacts of the man, including his girlfriend, a motorbike taxi
driver, and those who joined him at a restaurant and a karaoke parlour, were placed under concentrated
quarantine and got tested.
Forty-eight
second-hand contacts – those who have come into contact with the above 13
– were also asked to self-quarantine at home.
Upon
illegally entering Vietnam at Long Binh border gate, An Phu district, An Giang province,
the two , in addition to three other Vietnamese citizens,
hired a seven-seat car to return across the southern region.
An Giang province has identified the driver on December 28, a 30-year-old man
named M.V.T, residing in Vinh Loc commune, An Phu district.
According to local authorities, after transporting the group entering Vietnam illegally,
the driver failed to disinfect his car and went on to transport a number of
teachers and officials of Vinh Loc commune to be treated in hospitals in HCM
City.
Eight of them had to be quarantined.
Another
woman on the same ride is currently being quarantined at Sa Dec Hospital
in Dong Thap province, while three others in the illegal entry case
remain unaccounted for.
Further epidemiological investigation is ongoing to prevent the spread of
coronavirus in the community.
So far, all direct contacts of Patient No.1,440 have been negative for the
novel coronavirus in their first test.
The latest cases pushed the country’s total infections to 1,451,
with 35 deaths and 1,318 recoveries after 15 patients were given the all-clear
on December 28.
There are 17,016 people having close contacts with patients and returning
from pandemic-hit areas under quarantine./.
Source: VietnamPlus
