Two more workers at Tan Son Nhat Airport contract COVID-19

HCM City (VNA) – on February 9 reported two more
COVID-19 infections related to the hotspot,
according to the (HCDC).

The new patients were detected as the city’s authorities were conducting COVID-19 testing for the remaining 830 employees of the airport.

 

One of the two patients is an employee at the Vietnam
Airport Ground Services Company (VIAGS), which saw five workers infected with
the coronavirus, and the other is an employee of Vietnam Airlines who monitored goods
with Patient 1,979 on January 30 and 31.

As of February 9, the Tan Son Nhat Airport logged seven infections. The patients
work at the baggage handling team at the airport apron. Besides, there were 25
other cases related to the airport’s workers.

Right after receving information about infections at Van Don International Airport in Quang Ninh
province, the city’s steering board for COVID-19 prevention and control decided
to conduct mass testing for the airport’s staff from January 30. All airport staff
are tested for COVID-19 before they enter the next working day.

The same day, all 1,800 samples of workers of the Military Hospital 175 taken for
the coronavirus test showed negative results. The testing was conducted after Patient
1,979, who is a luggage handler at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport, went
there for medical examination on February 3 and 5.

While in the north, nearly 160 workers at the Van Don International Airport, who were
put under quarantine, were negative for the virus twice, Sun Group said on
February 9.

Earlier, the Ministry of Health reported the first locally-transmitted case in
Quang Ninh – a security worker at the Van Don airport. Relating to the airport
outbreak, Quang Ninh saw an additional ten cases who work at Noi Bai Airport’s security
team, Vietnam Air Petrol Company Limited (SKYPEC), air traffic control centre,
and VOR station.

The Van Don airport has been shut down for 12 days, and is expected to reopen on
February 21./.