Hanoi's streets are sterilised after a resident is confirmed to be infected with the SARS-CoV-2 (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam on March7 afternoon reported two more COVID-19 infection cases related to a femalepatient named N.H.N confirmed to be infected with the novel coronavirusSARS-CoV-2 a day earlier, said theMinistry of Health.
The two patients include a64-year-old woman who is the female patient’s aunt and a 27-year-old man – the patient’sdriver.
They are among those who had closecontact with the 26-year-old patient, N.H.N, and have been quarantined at theNational Hospital of Tropical Diseases.
N.H.N earlier visited her sister inthe UK, then travelled to Italy and returned to Hanoi on March 1 on flightVN0054.
Earlier the same day, the Ministry ofHealth confirmed the 18th COVID-19 infection case in Vietnam, who is a patientreturning from the epidemic-hit Republic of Korea (RoK).
The National Institute of Hygiene andEpidemiology said the 27-year-old male patient from northern Ninh Binh provincearrived in the RoK’s Daegu city on February 17 and came back to Vietnam onflight VJ981 from Busan to Van Don airport in the northern province of QuangNinh on March 4.
After entering Vietnam, the patientwas brought to a concentrated quarantine area and had samples tested positivefor the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Vietnam has to date detected 20COVID-19 infection cases. Of them, 16 patients had been successfully cured anddischarged from hospitals./.
The two patients include a64-year-old woman who is the female patient’s aunt and a 27-year-old man – the patient’sdriver.
They are among those who had closecontact with the 26-year-old patient, N.H.N, and have been quarantined at theNational Hospital of Tropical Diseases.
N.H.N earlier visited her sister inthe UK, then travelled to Italy and returned to Hanoi on March 1 on flightVN0054.
Earlier the same day, the Ministry ofHealth confirmed the 18th COVID-19 infection case in Vietnam, who is a patientreturning from the epidemic-hit Republic of Korea (RoK).
The National Institute of Hygiene andEpidemiology said the 27-year-old male patient from northern Ninh Binh provincearrived in the RoK’s Daegu city on February 17 and came back to Vietnam onflight VJ981 from Busan to Van Don airport in the northern province of QuangNinh on March 4.
After entering Vietnam, the patientwas brought to a concentrated quarantine area and had samples tested positivefor the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Vietnam has to date detected 20COVID-19 infection cases. Of them, 16 patients had been successfully cured anddischarged from hospitals./.
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