At Lao Bao international border gate (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has notrecorded any Ebola infections to date, deputy head of the Health Ministry’sPreventive Medicine Department Dang Quang Tan has announced.
During a meeting of the Vietnam PublicHealth Emergency Operation Centre in Hanoi on June 4, Tan said there are nodirect flights between Vietnam and DR Congo. Only about 30 passengers from DR Congochecked in Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat airports in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
According to him, DR Congo recorded thefirst Ebola case in 1976. The outbreak erupted in three Western Africancountries from 2014-2016 and reoccurred in early April 2018 in DR Congo.
As of May 29 this year, 58 people in DRCongo had been infected with Ebola during the latest epidemic, killing 27 ofthem.
Speaking at the event, Deputy HealthMinister Nguyen Thanh Long said the risk of Ebola infection in Vietnam is lowbecause infections mostly occur in sparely-populated and remote areas. However,agencies should stay alert to the epidemic.
He said the Health Ministry is working withinternational organisations to keep track of the epidemics as well asstrengthening supervision in communities, border gates and hospitals.
Long asked health sector to enhance trainingof health officials on disease discovery, prevention and treatment.
Localities were required to oversee otherepidemics such as influenza A/H1N1, A/H7N9, dengue fever and MER-CoV virus.-VNA
During a meeting of the Vietnam PublicHealth Emergency Operation Centre in Hanoi on June 4, Tan said there are nodirect flights between Vietnam and DR Congo. Only about 30 passengers from DR Congochecked in Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat airports in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
According to him, DR Congo recorded thefirst Ebola case in 1976. The outbreak erupted in three Western Africancountries from 2014-2016 and reoccurred in early April 2018 in DR Congo.
As of May 29 this year, 58 people in DRCongo had been infected with Ebola during the latest epidemic, killing 27 ofthem.
Speaking at the event, Deputy HealthMinister Nguyen Thanh Long said the risk of Ebola infection in Vietnam is lowbecause infections mostly occur in sparely-populated and remote areas. However,agencies should stay alert to the epidemic.
He said the Health Ministry is working withinternational organisations to keep track of the epidemics as well asstrengthening supervision in communities, border gates and hospitals.
Long asked health sector to enhance trainingof health officials on disease discovery, prevention and treatment.
Localities were required to oversee otherepidemics such as influenza A/H1N1, A/H7N9, dengue fever and MER-CoV virus.-VNA
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