Khanh Hoa applies preventive measures against MERS-CoV
The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has allocated additional
healthcare staff and equipment to a number of high-risk areas in a bid
to prevent the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has allocated additional
healthcare staff and equipment to a number of high-risk areas in a bid
to prevent the Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV).
Three remote thermal scanners and tens of hand-held temperature measuring devices have been installed in Cam Ranh International Airport, Nha Trang and Cam Ranh ports, Hyundai Vinashin shipyard and Van Phong petroleum depot.
Meanwhile, the Khanh Hoa International Quarantine Service has set up an isolation and treatment area in the Cam Ranh airport.
Airline passengers have also been requested to fill out a health declaration, designed to monitor the condition of passengers from 11 MERS-CoV affected countries, including the Republic of Korea (RoK).
Currently, the airport handles four flights each carrying 250 passengers from the RoK weekly.
The local healthcare sector has also provided medicine and equipment to provincial hospitals and healthcare stations in districts while forming mobile response teams to stand ready to support localities should the virus enter the province.
At the same time, the sector has also designed a process of caring for suspected patients.
Similar measures are applied in Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport in a bid to prevent the virus from entering Vietnam.
So far, no MERS-CoV infected cases have been reported in Vietnam. The virus has spread to 26 countries with 1,218 patients, 450 of whom have died. In the Republic of Korea, 95 cases have been recorded with seven deaths.-VNA
Three remote thermal scanners and tens of hand-held temperature measuring devices have been installed in Cam Ranh International Airport, Nha Trang and Cam Ranh ports, Hyundai Vinashin shipyard and Van Phong petroleum depot.
Meanwhile, the Khanh Hoa International Quarantine Service has set up an isolation and treatment area in the Cam Ranh airport.
Airline passengers have also been requested to fill out a health declaration, designed to monitor the condition of passengers from 11 MERS-CoV affected countries, including the Republic of Korea (RoK).
Currently, the airport handles four flights each carrying 250 passengers from the RoK weekly.
The local healthcare sector has also provided medicine and equipment to provincial hospitals and healthcare stations in districts while forming mobile response teams to stand ready to support localities should the virus enter the province.
At the same time, the sector has also designed a process of caring for suspected patients.
Similar measures are applied in Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport in a bid to prevent the virus from entering Vietnam.
So far, no MERS-CoV infected cases have been reported in Vietnam. The virus has spread to 26 countries with 1,218 patients, 450 of whom have died. In the Republic of Korea, 95 cases have been recorded with seven deaths.-VNA
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