At Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) - A Vietnamese citizen who was on the sameflight as a Japanese passenger who tested positive for COVID-19 had been foundand quarantined on March 5 morning, according to HoChi Minh City’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC).
The office said that after receivinginformation about Flight VN814 with a Japanese passenger suffering fromCOVID-19, municipal authorities immediately identified five passengers enteringVietnam on the same flight.
They include one Vietnamese, three French andone Australian.
The Vietnamese was then taken to a quarantinecentre, and his family members quarantined at home.
The three French people went to Bangkok,whereas the Australian returned to his country.
On March 3, the Japanese passenger boardedVietnam Airlines Flight VN814 with 72 others from Cambodia’s Siem Reap to HCMCity, then took transit Flight VN340 to Japan’s Nagoya City.
After arriving in Japan, he showed symptomsof fever and tested positive for COVID-19.
Flight VN814 carried 67 passengers and sixcabin crew members. A total of 61 passengers had connecting flights on March 3 nightto London, Japan, Busan and Manila. Six passengers checked in at HCM Cityincluding one Vietnamese, three French, one Australian and one Filipino. TheFilipino passenger flew home on March 4./.
VNA
