A village locked down after a coronavirus infection confirmed
VOV.VN - The northern province of Ha Nam has moved to cordon off a village after a coronavirus infection case was detected on April 28.
Barriers were erected at entrance and exit gates of Quan Nhan village of Dao Ly commune, Ly Nhan district, Ha Nam province, according to local media outlets.
Local authorities have so far identified more than 200 people who had directly or indirectly come into contact with the patient. Among them is a student of Hanoi-based Academy of Cryptography Techniques.
All of the F1 and F2 cases have been transferred to concentrated quarantine facilities for medical surveillance, and epidemiological investigations are underway, said a representative of the provincial Department of Health.
The patient, a 28-year-old man returning from Japan, tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus after completing a 14-day quarantine period according to COVID-19 rules.
While staying in quarantine in Da Nang, the patient had tested negative three times, meeting the criteria for self-quarantining at home.
However, two days after leaving the Da Nang quarantine facility for home, the man showed virus-like symptoms such as a cough and a sore throat.
The Ha Nam Centre for Disease Control (CDC) took his nasal swab for testing, with the results coming back positive.
The CDC Ha Nam took another sample for testing and at the same time sent it to the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology for confirmation.
