Kim Chung facility of national tropical diseases hospital under lockdown

 

Hanoi (VNA) – The Health Ministry has directed placing the second
facility of the in Kim Chung commune in
Hanoi’s outlying district of Dong Anh under lockdown from 8am on May 5, after
several medical staff tested positive to SARS-CoV-2.

After a doctor of the hospital was confirmed to have contracted COVID-19
on May 4, the hospital immediately collected samples of staff members and
patients in certain departments for testing, some of which turned out positive.
 The hospital suspected that it is a
cluster of infections from an inpatient treatment area.

During the lockdown period, the hospital will only admit new
patients for treatment.

The instructed that only severe cases of COVID-19 should
be moved to the Kim Chung facility, while patients who had received treatment
at the facility within the past 14 days must be traced and put under quarantine./.