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Authorities urgently tracing contacts of new COVID-19 patients

Authorities of Ho Chi Minh City and northern Hai Phong city are hastening actions to seal off the places related to the new COVID-19 patients who illegally entered Vietnam, and trace their contacts.
Authorities urgently tracing contacts of new COVID-19 patients ảnh 1Medical workers at a hotel in HCM City to conduct COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Authoritiesof Ho Chi Minh City and northern Hai Phong city are hastening actions to sealoff the places related to the new COVID-19 patients who illegally entered Vietnam,and trace their contacts.

The two new patients wereamong a group of 10 people illegally entered Vietnam on a fishing boat andarrived in Phu Quoc Island of southern Kien Giang province on March 22 morning.

After that, two of the grouptravelled to Hai Phong by air and one of them later tested positive for thecoronavirus SARS-CoV-2, while the other tested negative.

The Hai Phong Department ofHealth has isolated five places related to the women, including the Vinmechospital, a hotel on Le Hong Phong street, and a guesthouse in Kien Thuydistrict, and been tracing people having close contact with them.

Authorities urgently tracing contacts of new COVID-19 patients ảnh 2The Vinmec International Hospital in Hai Phong city is sealed off as a new patient has come here for testing (Photo: VNA)
Meanwhile, two others went toHCM City, where one of them took an on-demand test which later showed she ispositive for the virus.

The person travelling withthis woman stayed at a guesthouse in Alley 102 on Le Van Tho street. Thisperson used to be hospitalised for COVID-19 treatment in Cambodia on March 3and discharged from hospital on March 14 after testing negative for the virustwice.

HCM City authorities havedisinfected and sealed off Quoc Thai Hotel and Alley 102 on Le Van Tho streetin District 9 of Go Vap district, as well as other places related to thesepersons. Close contacts with them are also being traced, according to thecity’s disease control centre./.
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