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Hanoi-based hospital disinfected after COVID-19 infections

Soldiers from the Vietnamese army’s chemical division on May 6 disinfected the Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases which has been a COVID-19 hotspot in the latest outbreak.
Hanoi-based hospital disinfected after COVID-19 infections ảnh 1Soldiers from the Vietnamese army’s chemical division disinfect the Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Soldiers from the Vietnamesearmy’s chemical division on May 6 disinfected the Hanoi-based National Hospitalfor Tropical Diseases which has been a COVID-19 hotspot in the latest outbreak.

The hospital, located in Hanoi’s outlying districtof Dong Anh, has been put under 14-day lockdown, starting May 5 after a doctorwas found infected with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

About 400 employees of the hospital are beingquarantined there.

During the lockdown, the hospital, which was oncethe frontline facility in the pandemic fight, will admit only new COVID-19 patients. 

The Ministry of Health said the pandemic cluster atthe hospital originated from its inpatient treatment ward.

Since the new outbreak hit Vietnam on April 27, 42 cases linked with the hospital cluster have been reported, including two doctors./.

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