A hairdresser in Nam Tu Liem District, Hanoi tested positive for the COVID-19 pathogen, the city’s Department of Health announced on Monday.

H.T.H., 40, who lives in Xuan Phuong Ward, Nam Tu Liem District, tested positive for the virus after doing hair care for patient No. 1,723 on Tuesday last week, the department reported.

H. runs her own hairdresser shop, which is opposite the house of patient No. 1,723.

The medical center of Nam Tu Liem District specified H. as a case of direct transmission from patient No. 1,723, moved her to concentrated quarantine at a military facility in Quoc Oai District, and took her sample for testing.

After the test result arrived positive, H. was transferred to the Dong Anh District branch of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in the capital.

Addressing the case, the city’s Department of Health sent out urgent messages to all residents who visited the hairdresser shop, Thanh Huyen, located at 342 Phuc Dien Street, Xuan Phuong Ward, Nam Tu Liem District, between Tuesday and Thursday.

These individuals are asked to uphold self-isolation and report their cases to the nearest medical clinic or hotline numbers of 0969.082.115 or 0949.396.115 for guidance on COVID-19 prevention and control.

Patient No. 1,723, 34, is the wife of patient No. 1,694, who was identified as the source of transmission for a cluster of COVID-19 cases in the military factory Z153 in Hanoi’s Dong Anh District.

Vietnam has confirmed 1,851 coronavirus cases, as of Tuesday morning, with 1,460 recoveries and 35 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

The country announced the first two local cases on January 28, having gone nearly two months without any community-based infection.

A total of 271 domestic infections have been documented since then, according to the health ministry’s data.

The majority of the domestically-transmitted cases were linked to Hai Duong and Quang Ninh, both located in northern Vietnam.

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