COVID-19: Two more community cases confirmed in Vietnam
VOV.VN - Vietnam recorded two more locally transmitted coronavirus cases closely linked to a Vietnamese teacher who had caught the virus from a Vietnam Airlines flight attendant, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long announced on December 1.
One of the two latest cases is a female student of the teacher who teaches English at Key English centre in Ho Chi Minh City. The other patient, a one-year-old child, had close contact with the teacher.
All those who had contact with the two latest cases were placed in quarantine and tested for COVID-19, Minister Long said.
According to the Minister, the flight attendant, dubbed patient #1342, got virus infection from one of his colleagues at Vietnam Airlines’ quarantine facility in Ho Chi Minh City.
After two subsequent negative tests within five days, he was allowed to self-quarantine at a boarding house but then violated regulations on COVID-19 prevention and control when meeting with his relatives and friends, including the teacher.
The teacher was then confirmed to have carried the virus, dubbed patient #1347.
Both patients #1342 and 1347 did not fully abide by regulations on self-quarantine at home, said Long, adding patient #1342 alone seriously violated regulations on COVID-19 prevention and control that should be dully dealt with.
In other developments:
- HCM City on December 1 locked down and disinfected residential areas where patients #1341 and 1347 live.
- The HCM City Department of Health held an emergency meeting with leaders of 129 hospitals in the locality to discuss ways to prevent the spread of the virus to the wider community.
- Approximately 2,000 pupils of two primary schools were forced to stay at home after a teacher had close contact with patient #1347.
