The suspected case in HCMC is negative nCoV



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According to the Health Ministry, the test results confirmed that both samples from this suspect were negative.

Previously, this person’s patient sample was tested at Army Hospital for 7A nCoV positive, according to the hospital advisory. This human sample was transferred to the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City for testing and confirmation.

7 A military hospital was authorized by the Ministry of Health to confirm nCoV.

This man lives in the town of Tan Tuc and is a retired soldier. On December 24, 2020, he arrived from Ho Chi Minh City to Noi Bai Airport in Hanoi, and then moved in a group of 20 on a tour to Sa Pa. On the afternoon of December 27, 2020, He took a plane back to Ho Chi Minh City, stayed at his home in Room 5, ruled by Tan Tuc City.

On December 28, he presented symptoms of a cough, fever, and bought medicines near his home. On December 29, he went to a clinic near his home and the doctor prescribed medicine. On New Year’s Eve he entered the Emergency Department, Military Hospital 7A, by car, accompanied by military medical personnel. Doctors suspect, conduct screening tests, diagnose patients with suspected Covid-19 pneumonia, hypertension, heart failure.

While the official test result was awaited, the man’s house was sealed, 24 people who had direct contact were placed in the district quarantine area.

Ho Chi Minh City has had 33 days of freedom from infections in the community, since the last case in the chain of infections of a flight attendant registered on December 2, 2020.

At the end of December 2020, Ho Chi Minh City recorded two cases of nCoV infection as people who entered illegally. These two cases occurred among a group of 9 people from Myanmar who followed the open road to An Giang, from where 3 people dispersed to the western provinces; 6 people travel by shared car to Ho Chi Minh City, including 2 people get off the bus in Long An to one back to Dong Thap, one to Vinh Long, 4 people go directly to Ho Chi Minh City. Currently, this group has been discovered and quarantined, of which four people have confirmed nCoV infection, including “patient 1440” (in Vinh Long), “patient 1452” (in Dong Thap) and “patient 1451 “. “patient 1453” (in HCMC).

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