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People wear masks for COVID-19 at the domestic terminal of Tan Son Nhat Airport – Photo: XUAN MAI
During the recent online meeting of the Steering Committee for Disease Control and Prevention, Deputy Minister of Health, Nguyen Truong Son, said: “At first it was simple, but a very unexpected situation arose, it was F1 negative but many F2 returned to be positive. Logically, patient 1979 was not the first case “.
Previously, through the active supervision of 5,900 Tan Son Nhat airport employees, on February 5, Ho Chi Minh City discovered the 1979 patient, cargo handling supervisor (VIAGS company), who lived in Thuan An city , Binh Duong province. Test the F1, detect a brother who lived in the patient’s home was also positive (patient 1980).
After that, the city registered more cases such as colleagues, relatives, people sitting in the patient’s restaurant in 1979. On February 8, by testing 149 contact cases (F1, F2) of patients. 1979 and active testing of airport personnel, the city detected 25 more cases.
On February 9 and 10, the city recorded 3 more positive COVID-19 cases as workers at Tan Son Nhat airport, bringing the total number of COVID-19 cases in Ho Chi Minh City to 33 cases in 6 days. .
Synthesize reports from the health sector of the city, you can see There are 3 groups of related cases.
1. Group of 10 patient cases in 1979:
– Patients 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 It is a staff loading and unloading, luggage at Tan Son Nhat airport, in the same team with patients in 1979, communicating with each other, work without contact with passengers.
– Patient 2018 She visited the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hospital 175 on February 3, in the same time frame as the 1979 patient, who lived in District 12.
– Patient 2025, 2026 came to eat at the same time as the patient in 1979 at the goat stew restaurant on Le Trong Tan street, Son Ky ward, Tan Phu district. Both patients have homes in Binh Tan district.
– Patient 2065, 2066 worked at the Tan Son Nhat airport, used to monitor patient loading in 1979.
– Patient 2072 working in the loading and unloading guides section of the VIAGS company operations center (same department and patient’s F1 in 1979) The test result in 9-2 was positive for SARS-CoV-2. Currently, the patient is isolated and treated at the Cu Chi Field Hospital.
2. Group of 3 patient cases in 2003:
Even patients 2014, 2015, 2016, is a younger brother, mother and father who share the same house with the patient in 2003 (employee of the VTS company in Tan Son Nhat) in District 12.
3. Group 18 F2 to F0:
These 18 people are family members, relatives, friends … of the Tan Son Nhat airport staff who were exposed to COVID-19 (F1). They were F2, but were positive for COVID-19, while all F1 tested negative.
– Patient 2017 He is the brother-in-law of an employee of the Autogrill division of Tan Son Nhat Airport, located in District 12.
– Patient 2019 She is the mother of the VTS department staff at Tan Son Nhat Airport, located in District 12.
– Patients 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 living in the same pension in Binh Tan district with 1 employee from VIAGS company at Tan Son Nhat airport.
– Patient 2027, 2028 She is the wife and children of VACS staff at Tan Son Nhat Airport, home in Binh Thanh District.
– Patient 2029, 2030, 2031 They are parents and younger brother of VIAGS staff at Tan Son Nhat Airport, home in Binh Thanh district.
– Patients 2032, 2033, 2034, 2035 He is wife, son, neighbor, security guard of the personnel department of the VTS department of Tan Son Nhat airport, apartment building in Go Vap district.
– Patient 2036, 2037 living in the same motel area in Go Vap district with Pacific company employees at Tan Son Nhat airport.
There is also a case of patient 2004, that’s bPatient 2038: colleague of the patient in 2004, who works at VIAGS company at Tan Son Nhat airport, home in Thu Duc district.
Faced with the complicated evolution of COVID-19, HCMC has continued lThe sample from the second RT-PCR screening test for 1,600 VIAGS employees, as well as the antibody test for this entire group,Sampling at the same time selected as a pooled sample for all households of VIAGS employees.
As of the afternoon of February 10, the test results showed that there were 1,599 negative cases, 1 positive case (patient 2,072).
To ensure that passengers arrive and depart from Tan Son Nhat Airport, Ho Chi Minh City requires people working at Tan Son Nhat Airport to take samples every day, only when the test result is negative (the test is valid every day), they can go to work.
