One suspect case of COVID-19 reported in Da Nang

Medical workers move the suspect patient onto an ambulance to send him to the Da Nang Hospital for monitoring on July 24 (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Da Nang has recorded one suspect case
of COVID-19 which is a 57-year-old man who has stayed only in this central city
over the past month, the said on July 24.

The Ministry cited the municipal Department of
Health as reporting that over the past month, the man, residing in Lien Chieu
district, has stayed only in Da Nang, rarely gone out of his residential area,
and only met his neighbours.

Showing fever, cough and sputum, he visited the
city’s Hospital C on July 20 morning and was classified as a suspect case of
COVID-19.

Shortly after being notified of this case, the
Health Ministry ordered the Da Nang Department of Health to direct the city’s
disease control centre and Hospital C to take his sample for testing.

The first screening test, using the RT-PCR
method, on July 23 indicated that the man is positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus
that causes . Another test of sample collected later the same day also
showed the same result.

Samples have been sent to the Pasteur Institute
in Nha Trang city and the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in
Hanoi for confirmatory testing.

The department also immediately took
samples for testing from people having close contact with the at
Hospital C and Da Nang Hospital, along with his family members.

All 102 samples of those people tested negative for SARS-CoV-2.

The department has also requested relevant units
to conduct epidemiological  investigation
to clarify any others with close contact with the suspect patient, quarantine
them, and seal off related areas.

More information will be provided as soon as
confirmatory testing results are available./.