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HCM City reports 24 more COVID-19 cases, takes quick action

At Tan Son Nhat International Airport (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City detected 24 more COVID-19 cases on February 7 night besides four cases announced by the Health Ministry earlier the same day. 

All the new patients are staff member at Tan Son Nhat International Airport, who belong to the same team with Patient 1,979 that was confirmed positive with the coronavirus over the weekend. They were all transferred to quarantined zones.

The city is tracking people who had close contact with them.

At an online conference with the city’s authorities on February 8, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long required the city to act more quickly in zoning off affected areas with links to the new cases, and conducting mass testing in those areas.

Long asked the HCM City Pasteur Institute to increase testing capacity to 5,000 samples per day, adding the Ministry of Health will support the city in settling the outbreak at Tan Son Nhat airport.

“We should act faster than the outbreak”, he stressed.

Seeing the pandemic become complicated in recent days, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong ordered competent authorities to find out the source of the outbreak so as to have effective prevention measures.

Regarding festive activities during the traditional Tet holiday at Nguyen Hue Flower Street, Tao Dan Spring Festival, Phu My Hung Flower Street, and many other flower markets in the city, Phong said disinfection gates must be arranged at the sites while visitors are not allowed to enter the areas without wearing face masks.

The events could be cancelled if prevention measures are not put in place, he added./.

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HCMC has 24 more positive Covid-19 cases, any areas in city under lockdowns

Director of the Department of Health in the city Dr. Nguyen Tan Binh made the announcement of 24 more Covid-19 community transmission cases at an urgent meeting with the Ministry of Health and the municipal People’s Committee.
All people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 were transported to the centralized quarantine areas. The city Center for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDC) continued tracking close contacts. Any residential locations in the southern metropolis are under lockdowns.
When it comes to patients 1,979 and 20 suspected cases who are employees at Tan Son Nhat Airport, the health sector has rushed to conduct more than 7,300 employees in the airport. Test results of four more samples came out positive; therefore, the health sector decided to track back contacts of the four positive cases ( patients 2,002; 2,003; 2,004; and 2,005 ) who had been suspected cases before and contacts of patient 1,979. Initially, 251 contacts were isolated for testing. 24 of them were positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the first test.
Currently, the city health authority and administrations have imposed lockdowns on several residential locations where Covid-19 patients are residing including streets Nguyen Van Cu, Nguyen Trai, Nguyen Cu Trinh and Cong Quynh where around 2,000 dwellers are residing; residential quarter 3A in Thanh Loc Ward in District 12 and residential quarter No.4 in Trung My Tay Ward in District 12 where 130 dwellers are residing; Nam Bac eatery at 12A1 Bach Dang Street in ward 2, Tan Binh District; Cay Bang eatery at B68 Bach Dang Street in ward 2, Tan Binh District and Phuong Nam eatery at A3 Bach Dang Street in ward 2, Tan Binh District, rental areas in Pham Van Hai Street, in Nguyen Phuc Chu Street in Tan Binh District.

By Thanh An – Translated by Anh Quan

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HCMC has 24 more positive Covid-19 cases, many areas in city under lockdowns

Director of the Department of Health in the city Dr. Nguyen Tan Binh made the announcement of 24 more Covid-19 community transmission cases at an urgent meeting with the Ministry of Health and the municipal People’s Committee.
All people who tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 were transported to the centralized quarantine areas. The city Center for Disease Control and Prevention (HCDC) continued tracking close contacts. Any residential locations in the southern metropolis are under lockdowns.
When it comes to patients 1,979 and 20 suspected cases who are employees at Tan Son Nhat Airport, the health sector has rushed to conduct more than 7,300 employees in the airport. Test results of four more samples came out positive; therefore, the health sector decided to track back contacts of the four positive cases ( patients 2,002; 2,003; 2,004; and 2,005 ) who had been suspected cases before and contacts of patient 1,979. Initially, 251 contacts were isolated for testing. 24 of them were positive for SARS-CoV-2 in the first test.
Currently, the city health authority and administrations have imposed lockdowns on several residential locations where Covid-19 patients are residing including streets Nguyen Van Cu, Nguyen Trai, Nguyen Cu Trinh and Cong Quynh where around 2,000 dwellers are residing; residential quarter 3A in Thanh Loc Ward in District 12 and residential quarter No.4 in Trung My Tay Ward in District 12 where 130 dwellers are residing; Nam Bac eatery at 12A1 Bach Dang Street in ward 2, Tan Binh District; Cay Bang eatery at B68 Bach Dang Street in ward 2, Tan Binh District and Phuong Nam eatery at A3 Bach Dang Street in ward 2, Tan Binh District, rental areas in Pham Van Hai Street, in Nguyen Phuc Chu Street in Tan Binh District.

By Thanh An – Translated by Anh Quan

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Thailand: Mae Sot schools closed as local COVID-19 cases rise

Schools in Mae Sot district of Tak province, northern Thailand, are now closed for a week, making the district the highest controlled area declared by the provincial governor following the discovery of new COVID-19 cases. (Photo: thethaiger.com)


Bangkok (NNT/VNA) – Schools in Mae Sot district of Tak province, northern Thailand, are now closed for a week, making the district the highest controlled area declared by the provincial governor following the discovery of new COVID-19 cases.

Schools and nurseries under the supervision of the Mae Sot City Municipality, the local primary education district, as well as private schools in the area are now closed from today, but are scheduled to reopen on February 15.

This sudden closure of schools is because of the continuous spread of COVID-19 reported in the area. All class activities are now moved online during the period of school closures.

With other schools now closed, Sappha Wittaya School which is the high school educational hub of Mae Sot district remains open, with some classes arranged online to ease crowding at the school. Strict public health measures are being implemented at the campus to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

According to the Tak Provincial Public Health Office, 24 cases of COVID-19 have been reported since the beginning of this month in Tak province./.

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Hanoi contact tracing of new Covid-19 cases

Authorities in Hanoi are searching for people who have visited five places which relate to the newly-infected Covid-19 patients.

Hanoi authorities search for people who visited Garden Hill apartment building on February 8

As of 11 am on February 8, Hanoi reported two new Covid-19 cases which both live at the Garden Hill apartment building in Nam Tu Liem District. Both of them are being treated at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. One of them is the daughter of Patient 2009 and the other is their house helper.

The authorities in Hanoi issued an announcement asking those who have visited five locations in Nam Tu Liem District to report to the local medical stations.

These locations include the Garden Hill apartments from January 29 to February 7, the flea market on the opposite of Garden Hill, the food shop, the hair salon of the Garden Hill urban areas from February 2 to 4, and Viettel Store on Doi Can Street from 1 pm to 5 pm on January 29.

A total of five patients at Garden Hill have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 until now.

Patient 1694, a worker at Factory Z153 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and later infected another worker, Patient 1772. Patient 1772 later infected Patient 2009 when they talked to each other at the entrance of the Garden Hill, both wore face masks. Patient 2009 had coughing and a fever on February 5 and tested positive two days later.

The locality authorities disinfected the buildings and took testing samples of 1,200 suspected cases.

On February 8, HCM City authorities had an urgent meeting after 24 new cases were reported. In many cases, the result of the tests came back negative for F1 patients who had been in contact with the patient 0, but the results were positive for F2 patients who had been in contact with F1 patients.

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Vietnam records 16 new Covid-19 cases

Of the locally transmitted cases, six are in the northern province of Hai Duong, epicenter of the outbreak that began January 28 after 55 clean days.

Two new patients in Hanoi, one in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai and two in the northern province of Hung are also linked to the Hai Duong hotspot.

Hung Yen thus has been added to the list of localities that the new wave of community transmissions has spread to.

The remaining two community transmission cases are in Ho Chi Minh City, both employees of the Tan Son Nhat International Airport and related to the ongoing cluster at the airport with 30 previously confirmed cases.

The source of transmissions at the airport outbreak is yet to be identified.

With the 13 new cases, Vietnam has registered 486 community transmissions in 13 cities and provinces in the latest wave.

Hai Duong alone has 327 cases, followed by neighbor Quang Ninh with 53 and Vietnam’s two biggest cities, HCMC and Hanoi, with 33 and 28.

The three imported cases, quarantined on arrival, are people coming from Japan, the U.S. and Costa Rica.

Vietnam has recorded 2,069 Covid-19 cases so far, 595 of them active.