Vietnam records two new coronavirus infections Friday evening, including one returning from Russia and one infected by a Hanoi patient, the Health Ministry said.
The new cases take the country’s count of active infections to 113. The number of discharges from hospitals after treatment is 144, with no death recorded to date.
“Patient 256” is a 52-year-old Vietnamese man who lives in Van Lam District in the northern province of Hung Yen. On March 27, he flew from Russia to the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Aeroflot flight SU290. He was quaratined upon arrival and is now being treated at the National Hospital of Tropical Disease in the capital city.
“Patient 257” is a 15-year-old girl who resides in Ha Loi Village, Me Linh District, Hanoi. On March 20, a man who is her father’s friend and later became “Patient 243”, visited her house. She had a temperature and runny nose and tested positive for the coronavirus on April 8.
“Patient 243” is a 47-year-old man from Ha Loi Village. On March 12, he took his wife to the Bach Mai Hospital’s department of immunology and allergy for a check-up. Nine days later he began to develop body pain and fever and bought flu medicine from a drugstore near home.
On March 30 he visited a commune medical facility to submit his health declaration, and was told to self-quarantine at home. By then he had had close contact with family members and business partners. His samples were taken on April 4 by the Hanoi Center for Disease Control. Two days later his test results confirmed he had Covid-19. His family members have been quarantined. Two of his neighbors were later found to be infected.
The Bach Mai Hospital in Dong Da District is now one of the country’s sources of coronavirus infection.
Ha Loi Village has recorded five patients so far, including patients 243, 250, 253, 254 and the latest, “Patient 257”. The whole village including 2,711 households with 11,077 people have been isolated.
The Ministry of Health on Friday sent a team of pandemic experts to Ha Loi Village to help with controlling the situation of the virus.
Vietnam has recorded 257 Covid-19 cases with 11 latest discharges made on Friday.
The nation has entered the third stage of the epidemic with several community transmission cases and some sources of transmission yet to be detected. The situation requires strict social distancing, Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son said Tuesday.
Source: Vnexpress