A health worker disinfects a coach carrying COVID-9 patients in HCM City (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Three more people on
tested positive for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that caused the
acute respiratory disease (), raising the total number of infection cases
in Vietnam to 121.
The 119th case is a 29-year-old US citizen.
He currently resides in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Thanh district and works for a
financial consulting firm in the city’s district 1.
From March 1, he travelled between Vietnam,
Indonesia and Thailand, returned to Vietnam on March 15 on a flight whose
number and schedule he could not remember. Afterwards, he went to work and some
other places in the city.
He had fever, cough and sore throat on
March 19 and visited the FV Hospital for check-up the next day and has been quarantined
and treated since then.
The 120th is a 27-year-old foreign language
teacher from Canada, residing in District 2 of HCM City.
He entered Vietnam from Canada on February
11 and had close contact with the 91st case at some restaurants and
entertainment places on March 14, including Bar Buddha.
After the 91st patient tested positive for
the virus, the Canadian was sent to a concentrated quarantine area in district
2 on March 19. Two days later, he got fever and dry cough and was transferred
to the in HCM City’s Cu Chi district.
The 121st patient is a 58-year-old Vietnamese
man living in Tan Binh district of HCM City.
On March 18, he and his wife flew from New
York, the US, transited in Japan’s Narita airport and boarded flight NH831 back
to Vietnam. They arrived at Tan Son Nhat airport on March 19 and went into
quarantine in Can Gio district.
The patient got fever the next day and has
been quarantined at the district’s health centre./.
Source: VietnamPlus
