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HCMC Four employees of TSN airport are Vietnam’s latest Covid-19 cases The Saigon Times Monday,  Feb 8, 2021,08:33 (GMT+7) Four employees of TSN airport are Vietnam’s latest Covid-19 casesThe Saigon Times Employees of the HCMC Center for Disease Control take samples from employees of the Tan Son Nhat International Airport for Covid-19 testing. Four latest Covid-19 patients in Vietnam are all employees of the airport - PHOTO: VNA HCMC – The Ministry of Health this morning, February 8, confirmed four new locally-transmitted Covid-19 patients who are employees of the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCMC. Specifically, they are all men aged from 28 to 41 and work as baggage handlers at the airport. They are in the same team with another baggage handler residing in Binh Duong Province that had been confirmed to be infected with Covid-19 earlier. The four new cases include two residents of HCMC’s District 12, one of District 1 and one of Tan Binh District. They are being quarantined and treated at the Cu Chi Field Hospital in HCMC’s outlying Cu Chi District. With the four new patients, Vietnam has recorded 2005 Covid-19 cases, with 1,472 of them having recovered. Share with your friends:          …

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Nation Hanoi reports two new locally-infected Covid-19 cases The Saigon Times Monday,  Feb 8, 2021,13:15 (GMT+7) Hanoi reports two new locally-infected Covid-19 casesThe Saigon Times Two medical workers handle tubes containing samples for Covid-19 testing in Hanoi. The city has reported two locally-infected cases - PHOTO: LDO HCMC – After two days without new Covid-19 cases, Hanoi on February 7 recorded two fresh cases of community transmission, raising the total number of Covid-19 patients in the city to 25, according to the municipal Center for Disease Control (CDC). Specifically, a male resident in Vinh Phuc Ward, Ba Dinh District, went on a business trip to the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai from January 28 to 29 and returned to Hanoi at 1:30 p.m. on January 29 on the VN1612 flight, the local media reported. On the following day, he came to the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Dong Anh District for quarantine. His Covid-19 test results on January 29 and February 4 were negative but positive on February 6. The second patient is a 28-year-old woman living in the Garden Hill apartment building at 99 Tran Binh Street, My Dinh 2 Ward, Nam Tu Liem District. She had close contact with the 1,722nd patient at the gate of the building on January 26. On February 5, the patient showed symptoms of fever, cough and sore throat. She was found to be infected with Covid-19 on February 7. According to the Hanoi CDC, the patient posed a high risk of wide community transmission as she had direct contact with another Covid-19 patient 12 days ago. The competent agencies are investigating places where the patient had visited and tracing people with whom she had met. Share with your friends:          …

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HCMC 25 people in HCMC test positive for Covid-19 The Saigon Times Monday,  Feb 8, 2021,15:55 (GMT+7) 25 people in HCMC test positive for Covid-19The Saigon Times The house of an infected case in Thanh Loc Ward, District 12 is locked down. An additional 25 people in HCMC have tested positive for Covid-19 - PHOTO: NLDO HCMC – Besides four Covid-19 cases confirmed this morning, February 8, the HCMC Center for Disease Control (HCDC) has reported that an additional 25 people in the city have tested positive for the coronavirus once. To be confirmed, cases must test positive twice. At an urgent meeting of the municipal steering committee for Covid-19 infection prevention and control, HCDC director Nguyen Tri Dung informed that all of them had been transferred to Cu Chi Field Hospital, and HCDC is tracking those in close contact with these people, the local media reported. Among the total, five reside in Binh Thanh District, five in Go Vap, seven in District 12, seven in Binh Tan and one in District 9. Many areas in the city have been locked down. Municipal Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong ordered a strict control over these areas to prevent residents from entering or going out of the areas. Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long expressed his concern over the development of the pandemic in HCMC as the source of infection remains unknown. Although baggage handlers in the Tan Son Nhat International Airport posed no risk to transmit the virus to air passengers, their interaction with the community is great, thus the number of infected cases may be larger. HCMC needs to act quickly and urgently as it has done but more seriously, Long asked. He also instructed the city to take group samples in households instead of separate people. If the samples of households are positive, these households will be placed under quarantine and family members will have their samples taken separately. HCMC Chairman Phong …

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