Central Highlands reports first Omicron case
VOV.VN - A local resident of Lam Dong province has tested positive for the Omicron strain, becoming the first such case reported in the Central Highlands, a local health official confirmed.
The 38-year-old man returned to Vietnam’s Cam Ranh International Airport from Italy on December 30, said Nguyen Duc Thuan, director of the Lam Dong Department of Health.
The patient had been placed in quarantine at a facility in Khanh Hoa and allowed to return home in Lam Dong on January 8 after two negative RT-PCR COVID-19 tests.
The man tested positive again on January 9 and genome sequence by the Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur Institute on January 24 shows he had been infected with the Omicron variant.
The patient remains in stable health condition, said Thuan.
Lam Dong is the 14th Vietnamese locality that has recorded the presence of the Omicron variant.
Vietnam has so far confirmed 164 Omicron cases, including 92 cases in Ho Chi Minh City, 27 in Quang Nam, 14 in Hanoi capital, 8 in Da Nang, two each in Thanh Hoa, Quang Ninh and Kien Giang, and one each in Hai Duong, Hai Phong, Khanh Hoa, Long An, Ba Ria – Vung Tau and Binh Duong.
