Vietnam’s Ministry of Health is seeking all travelers who boarded eight flights between March 4 and 15 that carried passengers testing positive for the novel coronavirus.
The flights include:
-- Flight SQ176, operated by Singapore Airlines, from Singapore to Hanoi on March 15;
-- Flight VJ826, operated by Vietjet Air, from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Ho Chi Minh City on March 4;
-- Flight TK162, operated by Turkish Airlines, from Istanbul, Turkey to Ho Chi Minh City on March 8;
-- Flight QH1521, operated by Bamboo Airways, from Ho Chi Minh City to Phu Quoc on March 9;
-- Flight QH1524, operated by Bamboo Airways, from Phu Quoc to Ho Chi Minh City on March 13;
-- Flight SU290, operated by Aeroflot, from Moscow, Russia to Hanoi on March 13;
-- Flight QR970, operated by Qatar Airways, from Doha, Qatar to Ho Chi Minh City on March 10;
-- And flight TG564, operated by Thai Airways from Bangkok, Thailand to Hanoi on March 15.
The Ministry of Health recommends that all passengers on these flights contact the provincial or municipal Centers for Disease Control immediately for instructions on health monitoring, as they may have been exposed to passengers carrying the novel coronavirus.
Ticket agents are responsible for notifying passengers who purchased tickets for these flights.
The novel coronavirus, which first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, has infected over 182,600 people and killed more than 7,100 globally, according to Ministry of Health statistics.
Vietnam has so far confirmed 61 cases of coronavirus infections, with 16 having fully recovered and been discharged from the hospital by February 26.
Forty-five cases have been reported in the Southeast Asian country since March 6 after Vietnam had gone three weeks without any new infection.
More than half of the new 45 patients arrived in Vietnam on multiple international flights.
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