Students wear face masks in the classroom at the Thang Long Secondary School in Hanoi to avoid disease infection (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – A citizen of the US has been
tested positive for the caused by the novel
coronavirus (nCoV), becoming the 7th nCoV-infected case in Vietnam
so far.
The Ministry of Health said on February 2 that the patient
is currently quarantined at the in Ho Chi Minh
City.
The man, born in 1947, boarded flight No. 660 of China
Southern Airlines from the US to Vietnam on January 14. On January 15, he
transited an airport in China’s Wuhan city, the centre of the nCoV epidemic, in
two hours.
On January 16, he arrived at Tan Son Nhat Airport of HCM
City and moved to Trieu Han Hotel at No. 382/1-3 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street in
Ward 5 of the city’s District 3.
The man showed symptoms on January 26 and was hospitalised on
January 31. The testing result indicates that he is positive for .
The six
previous cases consist of two Chinese (a man and his son, with one already
recovering), three Vietnamese returning from Wuhan, and one Vietnamese who is a hotel
receptionist having close contact with the two infected Chinese nationals.
As of
February 2 morning, the nCoV-caused disease had been reported in 26 countries
with 14,500 confirmed cases, including 305 deaths (304 in China and one in the
Philippines)./.
Source: VietnamPlus
