Covid 19 testing

Chairman of the Quang Ninh People’s Committee Nguyen Tuong Van has ordered relevant agencies in the province to trace and conduct COVID-19 tests on all direct and indirect contacts of the patient. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese province tells students to stay home, suspends passenger transport following detection of COVID-19 case

Taken together with the government’s policy to provide mass quarantine largely free of charge, these data suggest that Vietnamese citizens did not have to worry about costs from Covid-19 tests (formal or informal), associated hospitalization, and centralized quarantine, thereby increasing their willingness to comply with extensive contact tracing and strict quarantine measures. … [Read more...] about Vietnam pushes for medicine self-sufficiency post Covid-19: Fitch Solutions

As of this morning, January 28, Hai Duong Province had traced 237 persons who came into contact with the 1,552nd patient and the female worker identified as N.T.G., who lives in Chi Linh City. Of the total, 177 persons work at the Vietnam Poyun Electronics Co. Ltd. … [Read more...] about Hai Duong shuts down Poyun’s factory to conduct Covid-19 testing

The fresh cases in Hai Duong were related to a woman who tested positive for the new and more contagious variant of SARS-CoV-2 upon arrival in Osaka, Japan.Meanwhile, the remaining 10 cases were detected in Quang Ninh Province after a local man who works at Van Don International Airport had tested positive for the virus. Among the patients, one is the man’s mother, while the others are his colleagues from the airport.On late January 27, the Vietnamese Ministry of Health announced two more locally-infected Covid-19 infections in Hai Duong and Quang Ninh provinces.At the meeting, Dam urged localities, particularly Quang Ninh and Hai Duong, as well as concerned agencies to take drastic measures for disease prevention and control. … [Read more...] about Vietnam records 82 new Covid-19 cases in Hai Duong, Quang Ninh

Up to over 200 people in the northern province of Hai Duong had close contact with a Covid-19 infected woman. The woman has been confirmed to be linked to the new variant of coronavirus after having close contact with the 32-year-old woman from the same province, who had tested positive upon arrival in Japan. The woman, Patient 1552, who works at Poyun Company in Hai Duong, is now being treated at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Dong Anh District. Pham Duy Tuyen, director of Hai Duong’s Centre for Disease Control, said that up to 237 people have been defined to have close contact with her. Local authorities have continued searching for other related people to both of the women. Kim Dien Village in Chi Linh City has been locked down after the 32-year woman tested positive to Covid-19 upon arrival in Japan.  Poyun Ltd. Co. where the 34-year-old woman works has also been temporarily closed. The centre has provided Covid-19 tests for 2,253 people who … [Read more...] about Over 200 people linked to Hai Duong Covid-19 case