A tour guide residing in Hanoi’s Cau Giay district has become the latest SARS-CoV-2 patient in Vietnam confirmed by the Ministry of Health on March 12.
A quarantine area at Hai Hau general hospital in northern Nam Dinh province (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) - A tour guide residingin Hanoi’s Cau Giay district has become the latest SARS-CoV-2 patient in Vietnamconfirmed by the Ministry of Health on March 12.
This has brought the total number ofinfection cases in the capital city of Hanoi to five and in the country to 39.
The 25-year-old man had close contact with the24th COVID-19 patient, who was tested positive for the virus innorthern Quang Ninh province, while guiding a group of foreign tourists on atour to Ninh Binh province on March 4.
The tour guide was hospitalized at the NationalHospital for Tropical Disease No 2 in Hanoi’s Dong Anh district on March 8,with slight fever but no coughing or shortness of breath.
His sample was tested positive for the novelcoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 by the National Hospital for Tropical Disease No 2.
A later test by the National Institute ofHygiene and Epidemiology also confirmed the man was infected with the virus.
The patient has been quarantined at the NationalHospital for Tropical Disease No 2 and in stable health condition.
The Ministry of Health requested the HanoiPeople’s Committee to track people who had contact with the patient, strictly monitorthe health of all persons who had close contact with him and sterilize theenvironment around his home in Cau Giay district./.
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