THE 7th CA IN VIETNAM INFECTION VIRUS CORONA

THE 7th CA IN VIETNAM INFECTION VIRUS CORONA

On the morning of February 2, the Ministry of Health confirmed that Vietnamese overseas Americans are isolated in Ho Chi Minh City positive for corona virus, bringing the total number of cases in Vietnam to 7.

On January 14, the patient flew from the US to Vietnam on flight 660 of China Southern Airlines. On January 15, patients were in transit at Wuhan Airport, China, within 2 hours. On January 16, the patient entered Vietnam at Tan Son Nhat airport and moved to a hotel on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, staying here until hospitalized.

On January 27, the patient showed signs of coughing much. On the afternoon of January 31, the hotel staff took him to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases of Ho Chi Minh City, quarantined, and took samples for nCoV testing.

Currently, the patient is treated in isolation at HCM Hospital for Tropical Diseases, breathing oxygen, taking antibiotics and antiviral.

The hotel the patient has stayed in currently has 6 guests and 8 staff members. Local police requested this place not to accept more guests to stay. The ward's "quick response team for corona epidemic prevention" disinfected and isolated the number of guests and hotel staff from February 1 to February 15 to monitor and prevent the risk of infection.

This 7th patient is one of four people announced quarantined by the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health on the afternoon of 1/2 due to suspicion of infection with the new corona virus. The remaining three are French from the same family. They left Wuhan to travel to Vietnam, showed respiratory inflammation, and were monitored in isolation at the City Children's Hospital.

Director of the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Tan Binh said that they checked and followed those who had contact with these 3 French people to have an isolation plan.

On the afternoon of February 1, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc announced an epidemic of acute respiratory infections caused by nCoV in Vietnam.

On January 31st, the Ministry of Health announced an epidemic of acute respiratory infections caused by corona virus in Khanh Hoa province, after identifying a 25-year-old female receptionist positive for nCoV.

The World Health Organization (WHO) on January 31st declared a global emergency because the epidemic of nCoV pneumonia has spread to more than 20 countries and territories around the world.

The outbreak of nCoV-induced pneumonia in Wuhan, China, was first reported on December 31, 2019. As of the morning of February 2, more than 14,000 people got sick, 304 died.

Source: vnexpress.net