Canadian media hails recovery of Case 91 as symbol of Vietnam’s pandemic success
Canada’s CBC.ca has highlighted Vietnam’s success in fighting COVID-19 pandemic through the impressive case of a UK pilot who is also known as “Case 91” in Vietnam.
The UK pilot, or "Case 91" (sitting) was released from the hospital on July 11 (Photo: VNA)
Ottawa (VNA) – Canada’s CBC.ca has highlightedVietnam’s success in fighting COVID-19 pandemic through the impressive case of aUK pilot who is also known as “Case 91” in Vietnam.
The article entitled “Virus-free UK pilot, symbol ofVietnam's pandemic success, to return home” that was run by CBC.com on July 11reported that the pilot is Vietnam's most seriously ill COVID-19patient, who at one point seemed close to death, left hospital on July 11 onhis way home after a dramatic recovery that attracted national attention.
It said thatthe case, a pilot for national carrier Vietnam Airlines, became a sensation inVietnam, whౠere a combination of targeted testing and an aggressive quarantineprogramme has kept its coronavirus tally to an impressively low 370 cases, andzero deaths.
The43-year-old Scot, who arrived in the Southeast Asian country from Britain inearly March, was hospitalized three days after his first flight for VietnamAirlines, following a visit to a bar in Ho Chi Minh City that became linked toa cluster of coronavirus cases. The article recalled that at one point, medical officialssaid that he had just 10 percent of his lung capacity and was in criticalcondition. By early April, Cameron was on a ventilator andlife-support machine at Ho Chi Minh City's Hospital of Tropical Diseases. InMay, medical officials were saying that he urgently needed a lung transplant.But under round-the clock care, Cameron improved. By June, he no longerrequired a lung transplant and was taken off life-support. Earlier in late May, Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper alsoran a story spotlighting Vietnam’s effective measures of preventing SARS CoV-2virus from spreading in the community. In a recent interview with Vietnam News Agency reporters,Thomas Alexander, a Canadian education expert working in Ho Chi Minh City saidthat he is impressed at the far vision of Vietnamese leaders in the fightagainst COVID-19 pandemic. He held that Vietnamese officials understood the complicatednature of the virus right from the beginning and gave appropriate advice onpreventive measures to the community. Living in Vietnam during the COVID-19 pandemic time, he saidthat he find himself lucky to be in a right place at the right time./.
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The UK pilot, or "Case 91" (sitting) was released from the hospital on July 11 (Photo: VNA) 
