‘Patient 1342’ is the source of three new infections in Ho Chi Minh City
The information was provided by Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health Nguyen Tan Binh on the afternoon of December 1, at a press conference about 4 cases of nCoV infection in the area in the past 4 days.
`Three cases 1347, 1348, 1349 have ended the city’s streak of 122 days without new infections in the community,` Mr. Binh said.
Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health Nguyen Tan Binh at the meeting on the evening of December 1.
`Patient 1342` was announced by the Ministry of Health on November 28.
From here, the Ho Chi Minh City health sector investigated the epidemiology and discovered that during the airline’s centralized quarantine period, this flight attendant violated regulations and voluntarily came into contact with another flight attendant – the latter.
The Ministry of Health confirmed that `patient 1342` contracted nCoV from `patient 1325`.
The City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) localized and determined that `patient 1342` had close contact with three people in the city.
Having identified F0 in the chain of community transmission, HCDC expanded tracing and quarantined areas.
Among them, the two F1s are a one-year-old boy and a 28-year-old female student, recorded by the Ministry of Health as `patient 1348` and `patient 1349`, on the afternoon of December 1.
`HCDC will provide test results as soon as information is available,` Mr. Binh said.
Except for the boy being treated at the City Children’s Hospital, the remaining three patients are being treated at Cu Chi Field Hospital.
The health sector is continuing to urgently trace, isolate and take samples for testing of other cases related to four patients, trying to prevent the epidemic from spreading as quickly as possible.
The Ministry of Health assesses that Ho Chi Minh City is not yet an outbreak of nCoV, just a place of infection.
Doctor Nguyen Tri Dung, Director of HCDC, said that the infection in the quarantine area from `patient 1342` is a warning lesson for quarantine areas that are neglecting management and monitoring of epidemic prevention.
