The Ministry of Health on March 8 confirmed the 21st COVID-19 infection case in Vietnam, who sat close to the row of seats on the same flight with the 17th COVID-19 patient.
The Ministry of Health on March 8 confirmed the 21st COVID-19 infection case in Vietnam, who sat close to the row of seats on the same flight with the 17th COVID-19 patient.
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Earlier on March 7, the country also reported the discovery of two additional cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection related to the 17th COVID-19 patient.
The two patients were a 64-year-old woman who is the 17th COVID-19 patient’s aunt and a 27-year-old man – the patient’s driver.
They are among those who had close contact with the 26-year-old patient and have been put in quarantine at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases.
The 26 year old girl earlier visited her sister in the UK, then travelled to Italy and returned to Hanoi on March 1.
The same day, the Ministry of Health also confirmed the 18th COVID-19 infection case in Vietnam, who is a patient returning from the epidemic-hit Republic of Korea (RoK).
The 27-year-old male patient from northern Thai Binh province arrived in the RoK’s Daegu city on February 17 and returned to Vietnam on flight VJ981 from Busan to Van Don airport in the northern province of Quang Ninh on March 4.
Vietnam has to date detected 21 COVID-19 infection cases, including the five latest cases being under treatment.
To cope with the complicated situation of the COVID 19 epidemic, the Steering Committee for COVID-19 prevention and control in Hanoi held a March 8 meeting to discuss measures to prevent the spread of the epidemic to the community.
After discovering 3 new cases, the Hanoi health sector stated that in the coming days, it is possible to continue recording more new infection cases due to close contact with infected patients.
