13th nCoV positive case in Vietnam
On the evening of February 7, the Ministry of Health announced that a 29-year-old patient in Binh Xuyen district, Vinh Phuc, positive for nCoV and was the 13th case in Vietnam.
This is one of eight workers from Nihon Plast Company returning from Wuhan, China, on the same flight on January 17. Five of them were identified with acute respiratory infections due to the new strain of nCoV. Patient is the 6th person in the group with nCoV infection and the 8th person in Vinh Phuc.
Unlike other patients, this girl has no symptoms, no fever, no cough. However, she has been isolated at the medical facility before. On February 3, the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology directed to take samples to test for nCoV even though the patient had no symptoms.
Currently, the patient is in isolation at Tam Dao District Medical Center, is healthy, still has no fever or cough.
The Ministry of Health recommends that local authorities closely monitor cases of close contact with people with nCoV infection.
Vinh Phuc is currently the locality with the most number of nCoV positive patients. Currently, Vietnam records 13 positive cases, with Vinh Phuc 8 cases, Ho Chi Minh City 3, Khanh Hoa and Thanh Hoa each one case. Three of these patients were discharged, including one in Ho Chi Minh City and one in Khanh Hoa, Thanh Hoa.
The patient in Thanh Hoa is also a member of the Nihon Plast Group from Wuhan.
In 8 cases in Vinh Phuc, 5 people belong to the group of Nihon Plast Company, 3 others were cross-infected domestically from a 23-year-old patient.
The National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology announced the successful culture and isolation of nCoV in the morning of February 7, paving the way for accelerating testing, research on vaccine formulation and finding out treatments for pneumonia. caused by the corona virus. Vietnam is the third country that successfully cultured CoV, after Singapore and Australia.
NCoV-induced acute respiratory infections started in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, quickly spread across China and more than 20 countries. As of 7/2 there were 31,535 cases worldwide, of which 31,210 people in China, 636 people died in the mainland and one died in Hong Kong, another died in the Philippines.
