Health Ministry sends experts to help Hanoi fight COVID-19

Checking body temperature of a driver (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The on April 10 sent a to help
Hanoi fight the raging COVID-19 pandemic.

The group is
led by the Deputy Director of the Tran Nhu Duong,
who has experience in controlling the disease in Son Loi commune in northern Vinh
Phuc province’s Binh Xuyen district and an outbreak in the south-central province
of Binh Thuan.

The National Steering
Committee on Prevention and Control said on April 10 that four residents
in Ha Loi village in Hanoi’s Me Linh outlying district have tested positive for the virus.
The entire village of 2,711 households and 11,077 residents has been quarantined.

Regarding the outbreak
in the capital’s Bach Mai Hospital, the committee said the hospital has
quarantined 546 patients while 28,810 people who visited the establishment after March
12 are being quarantined in localities.

Meanwhile, 4,466 people
who visited Buddha Bar in HCM City, which was the centre of 18 infections, are being
quarantined. Of these, 4,416 have tested negative for the virus.

In northern Ha Nam province,
140 people with close contact with the 251st patient have been
tested, with 99 negative. The remainder are awaiting results.

The committee
said the Health Ministry has allowed the Dong Nai Provincial General Hospital, the
Dong Nai Thong That General Hospital, and the An Giang General Hospital to conduct
tests. Thirty-nine laboratories have been certified.

The ministry has also
set up two teams to monitor the observance of regulations on COVID-19 prevention
and control at health facilities./.