8th case of corona virus in Vietnam

On the morning of February 3, the Ministry of Health confirmed that the 29-year-old patient, a worker returning from Wuhan, was positive for nCoV, increasing the total number of cases in Vietnam to 8.

The patient in Vĩnh Phúc was one of eight returning from Wuhan on the same flight, of which 3 were identified with nCoV acute respiratory infections. These three people are isolated and treated at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases and the Department of Tropical Medicine and the General Hospital of Thanh Hoa Province.

This is a case of "close exposure to high-risk cases", the Ministry of Health said.

The Ministry of Health assigned to take a sample of the disease and sent it to the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology for testing to determine the agent and directed to put this case in isolation at the medical facility. Currently, the patient is in quarantine at Dong Anh Center for Tropical Diseases and is in stable condition.

Regarding the epidemiological history, the patient accompanied 7 Vietnamese, another was sent to China by Nihon Plast Co., Ltd. of Japan to train in Wuhan city, Hubei province. She returned to Vietnam on January 17 on flight CZ8315 of Southern China.

The patient returned to Vietnam by air through Noi Bai airport, then was picked up by the company by company car and moved to the company's headquarters. After returning to the company, the group had a meeting (including patients with 7 Vietnamese people in the same group). She then moved home with a colleague on the same bus.

Patient's specimen positive for nCoV virus, tested by Realtime RT-PCR technique, at the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology.

In Vietnam, 8 people have been confirmed to be infected with the new corona virus, of which one has recovered from the disease. The number of suspected infections - including those showing fever, coughing and coming back from the epidemic area - were 92, of which 65 were nCoV negative, the rest are undergoing isolation.

Source: vnexpress.net