At the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - The Health Ministry has directed placing the secondfacility of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Kim Chung commune inHanoi’s outlying district of Dong Anh under lockdown from 8am on May 5, afterseveral medical staff tested positive to SARS-CoV-2.
After a doctor of the hospital was confirmed to have contracted COVID-19on May 4, the hospital immediately collected samples of staff members andpatients in certain departments for testing, some of which turned out positive. The hospital suspected that it is acluster of infections from an inpatient treatment area.
During the lockdown period, the hospital will only admit new COVID-19patients for treatment.
The Health Ministry instructed that only severe cases of COVID-19 shouldbe moved to the Kim Chung facility, while patients who had received treatmentat the facility within the past 14 days must be traced and put under quarantine./.
After a doctor of the hospital was confirmed to have contracted COVID-19on May 4, the hospital immediately collected samples of staff members andpatients in certain departments for testing, some of which turned out positive. The hospital suspected that it is acluster of infections from an inpatient treatment area.
During the lockdown period, the hospital will only admit new COVID-19patients for treatment.
The Health Ministry instructed that only severe cases of COVID-19 shouldbe moved to the Kim Chung facility, while patients who had received treatmentat the facility within the past 14 days must be traced and put under quarantine./.
VNA
