Ho Chi Minh City officials have barricaded a residential area after a recovered COVID-19 patient who lives there retested positive.
The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control has identified six people who had direct and indirect contact with the patient in question.
The patient, 27-year-old T.D.C., lives on Thoai Ngoc Hau Street, Hoa Thanh Ward, Tan Phu District, the center said.
The Hoa Thanh People’s Committee has thus locked down 17 households in the neighborhood, isolating and sampling 52 people for COVID-19 testing.
The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control said on Thursday that it had detected a recovered patient retesting positive for the virus.
C. had tested positive for the pathogen in Equatorial Guinea, a Central African country.
The man arrived in Hanoi on July 29 on board a flight that carried 217 Vietnamese returnees from the African country. They were all quarantined upon landing.
He was isolated for treatment at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in the capital city.
The patient was allowed to go home on August 14 after having tested negative for the virus three times. He was then required to continue self-isolating at home as per regulations.
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Source: Vietnam Insider