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Five crew members of an Indonesian cargo ship have tested positive for Covid-19 for the first time in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

Ship Ocean Amazing left Indonesia on February 20. When travelling through Vietnamese waters, a crew member suddenly died of unknown causes. The case was reported to the Vietnamese authorities for the assistance.

Right after that, Vietnamese agencies conducted a rescue and took Covid-19 testing samples for 20 people on the ship.

Among the twenty, five have tested positive for the first time.

The provincial Centre for Disease Control and Prevention have sent the test samples of the crew members to HCM City Pasteur Institute for the second test.

The ship has not yet entered Vietnamese waters. The body of the dead crew member has not yet been brought ashore, so there are no Covid-19 infection risks for Vietnam.

The Ministry of Health has been informed of the case.

The ship’s captain has said that if any crew member tests positive for the virus for a second time, the ship will return to Indonesia for sterilisation.

The Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) confirmed on Tuesday morning that two more employees at Tan Son Nhat International Airport had tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

One of the two individuals is an employee of Vietnam Airport Ground Services Company Limited (VIAGS), whose five other staff members have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and confirmed as patients No. 1,979, 2,002, 2,003, 2,004, and 2,005.

The other works for the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and came into close contact with patient No. 1,979 during cargo supervision on January 30 and 31.

As of 10:00 am on Tuesday, seven staff members of Tan Son Nhat International Airport had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, of whom five were previously confirmed as COVID-19 patients by the Ministry of Health.

They were members of a team in charge of unloading, arranging, and supervising luggage and cargos at the airdome.

Twenty-five other patients have also been confirmed in Ho Chi Minh City after having direct contact with the airport employees.

The municipal Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control previously ordered the COVID-19 testing for all staff members at Tan Son Nhat Airport following the detection of a cluster at Van Don International Airport in northern Quang Ninh Province.

A total of 8,130 samples have been collected and tested so far.

Competent authorities are conducting the second tests for all employees of VIAGS Company.

Airport staff who work directly with passengers are also tested for COVID-19 on a daily basis.

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A male staff member of Fuji Bakelite Ltd. Co. in the northern province of Hung Yen has tested positive for Covid-19.

On Thursday, the municipal people’s committee received the report about the case from the Covid-19 prevention and control steering board of Yen My District.

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The man, who tested positive for the virus on Wednesday, lives at Viet My Urban Area in Hai Duong Province’s Cam Giang District which is facing the Covid-19 outbreak. Fuji Bakelite Ltd. Co. is located at Thang Long II Industrial Park, Yen My District. Yen My District has been instructed to urgently trace people who had close contact with the man to quarantine and provide with Covid-19 tests. Sterilisation also needs to be conducted in all vulnerable areas. To date, local authorities have defined 26 people who had come into close contact with the man.

The Ocean Amazing was scheduled to arrive at a port in the southern province to deliver cargo, but on Feb. 20, after it entered Vietnamese waters, a sailor died on the ship due to an unidentified non-health-related issue.

Vung Tau authorities then tested the remaining 20 sailors on board for the novel coronavirus. At least five of them have tested positive, the Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province Center for Disease Control said.

“All the sailors are Indonesian, and most do not have symptoms of Covid-19,” a source said.

Gene sequencing is being performed on their samples and a second test is underway. If it too returns positive, the ship will be sent back to Indonesia for replacing the crew and disinfection before it can return to Vietnam with the cargo.

As of Wednesday morning the sailors were still on the ship anchored at sea, and have not carried out procedures to enter Vietnam.

Vietnam has had 2,403 Covid-19 cases so far, 604 still active.

Authorities have put 139 hotel employees and guests under quarantine after finding out the deceased man had tested positive for the virus.

The man, born in 1967 and entering Vietnam on January 17, stayed on the ninth floor at the serviced apartment building and died at around 7 p.m on Saturday.

He had previously undergone centralized quarantine in Ward 2, Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District.

During the quarantine, he tested negative for the virus twice, on Jan. 17 and 31. He later took a flight to Hanoi and underwent self-quarantine at Somerset West Point since 2 p.m, Feb. 1. Twelve guests stayed on the ninth floor of the building.

The cause of his death has yet to be confirmed.

An expert from Hanoi’s National Institute Of Hygiene and Epidemiology arrives in Hai Duong Province to test workers at a factory where many Covid-19 cases have been reported, January 28, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/The Quynh.

Tay Ho District’s medical authority has been investigating his travel history. Areas in and around the hotel were disinfected.

The swab sample of the man, which was sent to Hanoi’s Center for Disease Control, showed he contracted the coronavirus.

The Japanese Embassy in Vietnam has transferred the man’s body to the funeral home of the Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital.

As of Sunday afternoon, Vietnam has recorded 2,228 Covid-19 cases with 35 deaths.