Hai Duong bolsters COVID-19 testing capacity

About 5,000 samples will be taken for COVID-19 testing on January 30 in the northern province of Hai Duong, the country’s latest COVID-19 outbreak, said Director of the provincial Centre for Disease Control (CDC) Pham Duy Tuyen.
Hai Duong bolsters COVID-19 testing capacity ảnh 1Real Time PCR device is sent to Hai Duong province to support COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)
Hai Duong (VNA) – About 5,000 samples will be taken for COVID-19testing on January 30 in the northern province of Hai Duong, the country’slatest COVID-19 outbreak, said Director of the provincial Centre for DiseaseControl (CDC) Pham Duy Tuyen.

Contact tracing andtesting have been a top priority to promptly quarantine people having closecontact with the confirmed cases, he added.

Health workers frommajor hospitals nationwide, including Bach Mai Hospital, the National Hospitalfor Tropical Diseases and the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology,have travelled to the province.

Hai Duong’s testingcapacity and speed have been improved so as to conduct up to 5,000 samples perday.

The Hai Duong MedicalTechnical University sent 600 volunteers to support localities and the healthsector in survey and testing.

More than 7,000samples in total had been taken in the province since the start of the year.

As of January 29, HaiDuong had logged 138 COVID-19 patients, with 134 of them having links to VietnamPoyun Electronics (POYUN) Co., Ltd in Chi Linh city.

Some 3,000 residentsare under quarantine, including more than 1,240 people having direct contactwith the patients./.
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