At a quarantine site (Photo: VNA) Ben Tre (VNA) – Six people who shared
the same coach with COVID-19 Patient No.1452 have been put under quarantine in
the , according to Deputy Director of the provincial
Disease Control Centre Nguyen Huu Dinh.
The patient is a 31-year-old
Vietnamese woman residing in Lai Vung district, the Mekong Delta province of
Dong Thap. She illegally entered the country via an open trail on December 24
together with Patient No.1440, then travelled to Dong Thap.
She tested positive to SARS-CoV-2 by Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City on
December 27.
The provincial Steering
Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control directed authorities to seriously
launch pandemic prevention and control measures.
On December 30, the People’s Committee of
Bac Kan province also directed units concerned to promptly take four illegal
Chinese immigrants and one Vietnamese to quarantine.
They were found on a coach which was stopped by police on its way to Hanoi.
Another illegal immigrant was also quarantined in the Mekong Delta province of
Tien Giang the same day./.
Source: VietnamPlus
