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Vietnamese officials say a new type of coronavirus was detected in Danang, making it even more contagious than the previous one. The city is closing for tourists, promising that additional security measures will be taken.
A new coronavirus outbreak is recorded in Danang, Vietnam, one of the country’s largest and most important tourist centers.
Specifically, there is a new and more contagious strain of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, according to a national government website.
Of the 11 infected people for whom COVID-19 has been approved are between the ages of 24 and 70, and four members of the medical staff working at a large hospital in Danang City have also been infected.
The outbreak in Vietnam was announced after COVID-19 was confirmed to the first patient in three months on Friday. The hospital where he is being treated has been quarantined and all international flights to and from Danang have been canceled and domestic tourism has been suspended for at least three weeks.
Local health officials plan to test another 10,000 for COVID-19. Danang population. The city will also reintroduce safe distance rules.
In Vietnam, 80,000 people are being evacuated from the tourist town of Danang. People, mostly local tourists, government officials said Monday, Reuters reports.
The Southeast Asian country again announces a major threat.
The evacuation will take at least four days. There will be around 100 domestic flights a day from Danang to 11 other Vietnamese cities, the country’s government said in a statement.
Safety distance compliance rules have been reintroduced in Danange.
Vietnam has confirmed only 420 cases of COVID-19 since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, with strict quarantine measures and an extremely extensive and active testing system tested.
In Danange, the social distance regime will be applied again. All sporting, cultural and religious events are canceled in the city. City residents cannot form groups of more than 30 people.
Vietnamese authorities have linked the coronavirus outbreak to three Danang hospitals where they may have had contact with the sick. According to The Guardian, the three hospitals were visited by a 57-year-old man who was admitted on July 20 due to fever and cough.
The first cases of coronavirus infection in Vietnam were detected in January. Then, the government took urgent measures, cut educational processes in educational institutions, adapted the requirements of social distance, closed the borders and began to meet the isolation requirements. Then the spread of the coronavirus was stopped.
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