A 57-year-old man in Vietnam’s coastal city of Da Nang tested positive for COVID-19 at a local hospital yesterday.
His samples are being tested again at Nha Trang’s Pasteur Institute for confirmation. Vietnam News Agency reported.
He had a high fever and went for a check-up at the Da Nang C Hospital at 8.25am on July 20. After being suspected of having the SARS-CoV-2 virus, his samples were tested and returned positive twice.
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According to the Vietnam News, more than 50 people who were in contact with him have been quarantined.
In the past month, he hadn’t travelled out of town and just had contact with his neighbors.
The Da Nang Center for Disease Control and Prevention took samples from 102 people thought to have been in contact with the man and all of them tested negative.
Local authorities and health officials are investigating the case to identify the source of the transmission.
Da Nang C Hospital in Da Nang City where a local man is suspected to have infected with Covid-19, July 2020. Photo by VnExpress/Nguyen Dong.
If he is indeed infected, Vietnam will end 99 days without a single case of community transmission.
Vietnam has had 412 cases of Covid-19, with 365 people recovering so far.
According to a report by the VNExpress, a local media, all cases detected since April 16 have been foreigners or Vietnamese repatriates who were quarantined upon arrival. Vietnam has brought home nearly 14,000 of its nationals since April.
Worldwide, 636,479 people have died of the disease.
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Source: Vietnam Insider