The new case at Tan Son Nhat airport was an employee of Vietnam Airlines, 3 family members were negative



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On the afternoon of February 9, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee held an online meeting with the Steering Committee for the prevention and control of Covid-19 Ho Chi Minh City.

On February 9, the city also registered a series of suspected cases as an official of the 10th District People’s Committee and a person in close contact with the case in the city of Thu Duc. Two new suspected cases were discovered at Tan Son Nhat airport, including employees of Vietnam Airlines and people from the loading and unloading company.

In reporting at the meeting, Vietnam Airlines representatives said that this positive case had 5 F1 contacts in the unit, the F2 number was 26 people. The Chairman of the People’s Committee, Nguyen Thanh Phong, suggested that these F1s be concentrated in isolation.

The new case in Tan Son Nhat is an employee of Vietnam Airlines, who lives in an apartment in Tan Binh district - Photo 1.

Epidemiological investigation shows that the male Vietnam Airlines employee currently resides in an apartment at 171 Hoang Hoa Tham (Tan Binh district).

Tan Binh District handles cases related to Vietnam Airlines cases as follows:

This is a male patient, living in the 15th floor apartment building at 171 Hoang Hoa Tham, who has direct contact with 3 family members. The district health force has blocked all contacts in the apartment, the result of test 3 F1 in the family of this employee is negative.

The Tan Binh District Medical Center also said it had collected 369 samples from residents (95 raw samples) and there are no results. The other case is an employee of the VIAGS company, who had 5 cases of infection before.

From January 27 to the morning of February 9, Ho Chi Minh City had 31 Covid-19 patients, 2 people in District 10 and Thu Duc City, and 2 employees at Tan Son Nhat airport suspected of being infected. . Among the 30 new patients, 5 are cargo handling personnel at Tan Son Nhat airport. The Covid-19 epidemic occurred in 7 districts of Ho Chi Minh City.

Authorities say this is quite a complicated development because the source of infection and timing of initiation have not been determined. Therefore, Ho Chi Minh City may add more cases of infection to the community in the next time. Currently, all F1, F2 concentrated isolates are strictly isolated in residence. Many sites related to the case have been blocked.



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