Vietnam ministry seeks people having contact with COVID-19 patient
Monday, April 06, 2020, 11:00 GMT+7
The Ministry of Health issued an urgent notification on Sunday advising those visiting four places in Hanoi to contact health facilities for assistance, as a person catching novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) had come to the venues.
The four places include:
* Moc Linh Oriental Medicine Clinic at 182 Ngoc Ha Street, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi; time frames: 8:30 am on March 17, 10:30 am to 11:00 am on March 18, 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm on March 22, 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm on March 23, and 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm on March 24.
* Jc Caze Clinic at 5 Hang Chuoi Street, Hanoi; time frames: 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm on March 18, 10:00 am to 11:30 am on March 19.
* Huong Sen Healthcare Center at 5 Le Van Thiem Street, Hanoi; time frame: 9:00 am to 10:30 am on March 18.
* Sheraton Hotel K5 Nghi Tam at 11 Xuan Dieu Street, Hanoi; time frame: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on March 20.
The health ministry recommended that anyone having visited the said places at the times indicated should contact local Centers for Disease Control to have their health monitored.
A reporter of the national English-language daily Viet Nam News tested positive for the novel coronavirus on March 29.
On March 12, T.H., the 43-year-old reporter, interviewed a former French ambassador to Vietnam.
The diplomat was later diagnosed with COVID-19 and became Vietnam’s 148th patient on March 26.
The reporter then visited her workplace at 79 Ly Thuong Kiet Street in Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi and was in contact with her coworkers in their office on the 10th floor.
Once the former ambassador was pronounced to be at high risk of COVID-19 infection, H. and other people who had close contact with him were sent to a collective quarantine camp.
On March 27, authorities fumigated the entire building at 79 Ly Thuong Kiet Street as well as the neighborhood where H. resides in Trung Hoa Ward, Cau Giay District.
The building was briefly on lockdown on March 29 before the lockdown was lifted later the same day.
The Viet Nam News then announced that its print daily would be suspended from March 31 to April 15.
Vietnam has confirmed 241 COVID-19 cases so far, 91 of them having fully recovered.
The Southeast Asian country reported only one new patient on Sunday while having recorded no additional infection as of 11:00 am on Monday.
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