A Russia returnee was Vietnam’s latest coronavirus patient, taking the country’s active cases to 39, the Health Ministry said Thursday evening.
“Patient 1100” is a 29-year-old resident of Hung Dao Ward, Dong Trieu Town in northern Quang Ninh Province.
On September 26, he arrived in Can Tho on Bamboo Airways flight QH9495 from Russia and was quarantined in the southern city upon entry. He had close contact with people who have become patients numbered from 1091 to 1094.
Last Sunday, the patient showed symptoms like fever, cough, sore throat and decreased sense of smell. The second test result Wednesday showed he tested positive for the novel coronavirus.
The patient is being treated at the Bac Lieu General Hospital in southern Bac Lieu Province.
Vietnam has recorded 1,100 Covid-19 cases, of whom 1,023 have recovered and 35 have died of the disease.
Of the national tally, 691 were locally transmitted cases and the rest imported.
Vietnam has gone 35 days without recording a community transmission of the virus.
More than 14,000 people are in quarantine, of these 200 are quarantined in hospitals, over 11,000 in centralized camps and the rest at home or other designated accommodations.
Worldwide, more than one million have died of Covid-19, which has infected more than 36 million people.
This article was originally published in Vnexpress
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Source: Vietnam Insider