A quarantine area at Hai Hau general hospital in northern Nam Dinh province (Photo: VNA) in Hanoi’s Cau Giay district has become the latest SARS-CoV-2 patient in Vietnam
confirmed by the Ministry of Health on March 12.
This has brought the total number of
infection cases in the capital city of Hanoi to five and in the country to 39.
The 25-year-old man had close contact with the
24th patient, who was tested positive for the virus in
northern Quang Ninh province, while guiding a group of foreign tourists on a
tour to Ninh Binh province on March 4.
The tour guide was hospitalized at the National
Hospital for Tropical Disease No 2 in Hanoi’s Dong Anh district on March 8,
with slight fever but no coughing or shortness of breath.
His sample was tested positive for the novel
coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by the .
A later test by the National Institute of
Hygiene and Epidemiology also confirmed the man was infected with the virus.
The patient has been quarantined at the National
Hospital for Tropical Disease No 2 and in stable health condition.
The Ministry of Health requested the Hanoi
People’s Committee to track people who had contact with the patient, strictly monitor
the health of all persons who had close contact with him and sterilize the
environment around his home in Cau Giay district./.
Source: VietnamPlus
