Ministry confirms 5th COVID-19 infection case in Ha Noi

March 12, 2020 2:00 PM GMT+7

VGP – Viet Nam's Health Ministry has confirmed the 39th COVID-19 patient in Viet Nam and the fifth infection case in Ha Noi.

The tour guide lives at No. 165 Cau Giay Street, Ha Noi

The 25-year-old male patient, residing at Dich Vong, CauGiay District, Ha Noi, is a tour guide.

On March 4, he led a foreign delegation to visit Ninh Binh Province and was in contact with the 24th COVID patient, who was on the same flight VN0054 from the UK to Viet Nam on March 2 with the 17th COVID patient. 

After learning that the British visitor was contracted with the virus, he went to the Saint Paul Hospital in the city for examination and was transferred on March 8 to the Central Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Dong Anh District, where his condition is stable.

The Ministry of Health has requested Ha Noi’s People’s Committee to seek for people having contact with the patient and disinfect the patient’s residence as well as closely monitor the health situations of all people having close contact with the patient. 

The first four COVID-19 infection cases in Ha Noi include: 

Nguyen Hong Nhung, aged 26, address: No. 125, Truc Bach Street, Ba Dinh District (the first infection case in Ha Noi)

27-year old man, address: No. 113, Truc Bach Street, Ba Dinh District (her family’s driver)

64-year old woman, address: No. 125, Truc Bach Street, Ba Dinh, (her aunt)

61-year old man, address. No. 7 Nguyen Khac Nhu (sat near Nhung on same flight VN0054 from the UK to Viet Nam on March 2)

All these patients have been treated and isolated at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Dong Anh, Ha Noi. 

By Thuy Dung

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