Tubes containing samples for COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) –The Ministry of Health (MoH) on November 30 afternoon confirmed a new COVID-19case that got the coronavirus from another still under quarantine.
According information released at the MoH’surgent meeting, the new patient, No 1347, is directly linked with Patient 1342who had been recorded on November 29.
While staying at a quarantine site of VietnamAirlines in Tan Binh district of Ho Chi Minh City from November 14 to 18,Patient 1342, a flight attendant, had contact with a colleague who is Patient1325 serving on another flight.
After testing negative for the coronavirustwice, Patient 1342 was allowed to undergo self-quarantine at a boardinghouse in Tan Binh district.
During this period, the patient had close contact with his mother and two friends. The male friend came to share the house withPatient 1342.
Patient 1342 had his sample collected for thethird test on November 28, and the result was positive.
The three people having close contact with himwere immediately quarantined and tested. Among them, the male friend ispositive and became Patient 1347.
From November 18 to 25, this latest patienttaught at an English-language centre in Tan Binh district and another branch ofthis centre in District 10, and visited some other places.
There are 38 people with close contact withPatient 1347, and 154 others having direct contact with them, according toinitial investigation results.
At the meeting, Minister of Health Nguyen ThanhLong requested the HCM City Department of Health to promptly trace and test allpeople having contact with the abovementioned patients, and they must be putunder concentrated quarantine.
He ordered the department to immediately requestthose who have visited the sites Patient 1347 had come to contact local healthfacilities, and to temporarily put the places in lockdown.
Long also urged all medical establishments inHCM City to raise their guard, increase screening measures for people withsuspected symptoms, and seriously carry out anti-COVID-19 measures asregulated.
Besides, the MoH asked Vietnam Airlines tocomply with quarantine regulations at its facilities, and the administrationsof HCM City and Hanoi, where the carrier’s quarantine sites are located, tostrictly manage quarantine activities.
It also told all-level authorities, especiallygrassroots ones, to seriously monitor people’s self-quarantine./.
VNA
