Medical workers at a hotel in HCM City to conduct COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – Authorities
of and northern Hai Phong city are hastening actions to seal
off the places related to the new patients who illegally entered Vietnam,
and trace their contacts.
The two new patients were
among a group of 10 people illegally entered Vietnam on a fishing boat and
arrived in Phu Quoc Island of southern Kien Giang province on March 22 morning.
After that, two of the group
travelled to Hai Phong by air and one of them later tested positive for the
SARS-CoV-2, while the other tested negative.
The Hai Phong Department of
Health has isolated five places related to the women, including the Vinmec
hospital, a hotel on Le Hong Phong street, and a guesthouse in Kien Thuy
district, and been tracing people having close contact with them.
The Vinmec International Hospital in city is sealed off as a new patient has come here for testing (Photo: VNA)Meanwhile, two others went to
HCM City, where one of them took an on-demand test which later showed she is
positive for the virus.
The person travelling with
this woman stayed at a guesthouse in Alley 102 on Le Van Tho street. This
person used to be hospitalised for COVID-19 treatment in Cambodia on March 3
and discharged from hospital on March 14 after testing negative for the virus
twice.
HCM City authorities have
disinfected and sealed off Quoc Thai Hotel and Alley 102 on Le Van Tho street
in District 9 of Go Vap district, as well as other places related to these
persons. Close contacts with them are also being traced, according to the
city’s disease control centre./.
Source: VietnamPlus
