On the morning of January 16, Mr. Nguyen Thanh Trung, Deputy Director of Da Nang Hospital - which is treating Chinese tourists in isolation, said that the initial and clinical tests of a male patient born in 1997 are not available. symptoms of pneumonia.

"The patient has a fever," said Dr. Trung. Viral fever is another way of describing a fever caused by a virus.

This patient's swab sample and serum were sent to Nha Trang Pasteur Institute for testing to find the cause of the fever. According to Dr. Trung, the patient's health is currently normal, must still be in the isolation room until the test results from the Pasteur Institute are available.

This male patient is one of two tourists from Wuhan city, China entering Vietnam with fever on January 14. The second case is a boy born in 2016 traveling on the same flight, traveling with this person. When completing immigration procedures, the baby has a fever of 37.5 degrees C, the medical quarantine agency gives rest in the isolation room. The baby then passed out of fever and was admitted as a normal person, monitored in the community.

It is not clear whether these two tourists had pneumonia from Wuhan, where the onset of acute lung disease caused by the corona virus was not known, but they both reside in Wuhan.

Deputy Director of the Da Nang Health Department Nguyen Tien Hong said he continued to monitor the health of two Chinese patients and the passengers sitting near them on the flight. Danang also prepares human resources, equipment, chemicals ... to be ready to fight epidemics when the disease spreads.

Passengers enter Cam Ranh international airport. Currently, Vietnam has not recorded any domestic cases, however, the high risk of infectious pneumonia due to the need of trade and tourism with China. The Ministry of Health continues to organize inspection teams for epidemic prevention in localities with large border gates with China, actively fight against invasive diseases. Wuhan's acute pneumonia started on December 31, 2019, with 41 hospitalized. They all trade at the Huanan Seafood Market. One person later died. The disease spreads quickly to other regions, territories, countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, Thailand, Japan ... Ten days after the first case, scientists identified the culprit of acute pneumonia as an unknown strain of the Corona virus family. This is a family of viruses that cause respiratory and digestive diseases, including a strain causing dangerous infectious diseases such as SARS, MERS ... The new virus is named nCoV, currently there is no treatment regimen.