Hanoi’s streets are sterilised after a resident is confirmed to be infected with the SARS-CoV-2 (Photo: VNA)7 afternoon reported two more COVID-19 infection cases related to a female
patient named N.H.N confirmed to be infected with the novel coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2 a day earlier, said the
.
The two patients include a
64-year-old woman who is the female patient’s aunt and a 27-year-old man – the patient’s
driver.
They are among those who had close
contact with the 26-year-old patient, N.H.N, and have been quarantined at the
.
N.H.N earlier visited her sister in
the UK, then travelled to Italy and returned to Hanoi on March 1 on flight
VN0054.
Earlier the same day, the Ministry of
Health confirmed the 18th infection case in Vietnam, who is a patient
returning from the epidemic-hit Republic of Korea (RoK).
The National Institute of Hygiene and
Epidemiology said the 27-year-old male patient from northern Ninh Binh province
arrived in the RoK’s Daegu city on February 17 and came back to Vietnam on
flight VJ981 from Busan to Van Don airport in the northern province of Quang
Ninh on March 4.
After entering Vietnam, the patient
was brought to a concentrated quarantine area and had samples tested positive
for the .
Vietnam has to date detected 20
COVID-19 infection cases. Of them, 16 patients had been successfully cured and
discharged from hospitals./.
Source: VietnamPlus
