A local woman infected with COVID-19 in Dong Thap: local official
VOV.VN - A woman who travelled on a bus with an illegal entrant, a COVID-19 patient, has tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to local officials of Dong Thap province where the woman lives.
The first positive test result was confirmed by the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute on December 28.
The woman on December 24 boarded the bus together with the 32-year-old man who illegally crossed the Vietnam-Cambodia border to his hometown in Vinh Long province.
The Ministry of Health announced on December 26 the man had tested positive for the virus.
Relevant forces scrambled to track down and quarantine those who had contact with the woman after hearing that she had travelled with the COVID-19 patient.
Local authorities have so far quarantined four residents and are now speeding up the tracing of other direct and indirect contacts.
Another man who had travelled with the male patient, dubbed patient #1,440, was confirmed by the Ministry of Health on December 28 to have carried the virus. The man lives in Ho Chi Minh City.
The Prime Minister on December 28 called on people to detect and inform local authorities about any illegal entrant who may pose a virus risk to the community.
