A returnee from the US infected with COVID-19
VOV.VN - Vietnam on December 27 registered another coronavirus infection, a Vietnamese returnee from the United States, according to the Ministry of Health.
The male patient, a 60-year-old resident of Da Nang city, was quarantined as soon as he landed at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport on December 12.
He tested positive for the SRAS-CoV-2 virus on December 27 and was transferred to Hanoi-based Hospital of Tropical Diseases for medical observation and treatment.
The new patient has raised Vietnam’s total number of coronavirus infections to 1,441, including 748 imported cases coming from COVID-hit countries.
Earlier on December 26, Vietnam recorded the 1,440th infection, a 32-year-old man who illegally crossed the Vietnam-Cambodia border into his hometown in Vinh Long province.
The illegal entrant was said to have travel from Malaysia to Thailand, Myanmar and Cambodia before reaching Vietnam.
Local authorities scrambled to trace and quarantine those who had direct and indirect contact with the man after he tested positive on December 24.
The latest report by the Ministry of Health showed 13 of those who had direct contact with the patient have tested negative for the virus.
