A quarantine area is established to prevent the spread of COVID-19 on Truc Bach street of Hanoi (Source: VNA)The Ministry of Health on March 13 evening confirmed two more cases tested
positive for the novel SARS-CoV-2, bringing the total number of
patients in Vietnam to 47.
The 46th patient is a 30 year-old woman, residing in Khuong Trung ward in Hanoi’s Thanh
Xuan district, who served as a stewardess on a flight from London to Hanoi on
March 9.
On March 10, she got fever
and cough. On day later, the patient came to the Aviation Medical Centre for
health check-up and then was taken to the National Hospital of Tropical Disease
No. 2 in Hanoi’s suburban Dong Anh district.
At the hospital, the
patient has been quarantined and had a sample tested positive for the virus.
Later, her sample was
also tested positive for by the National Institute of Hygiene and
Epidemiology on March 13.
The 47th patient is a 43-year-old woman who worked as home helper of the 17th patient on Truc Bach street in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh district.
Right after her hostess
was confirmed to be infected with the virus on March 5, she was brought to the National
Hospital of Tropical Disease No. 2 for quarantine and sample test.
Both patients are now
in stable health conditions, said the .
Among the confirmed
patients in the country, 16 had been successfully treated and discharged from
hospitals./.
Source: VietnamPlus
