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According to the Hanoi Center for Disease Control (CDC) report on the night of November 15, this person, once registered as “patient 1032”, was admitted to the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases 2 for treatment. Twenty-five people in close contact with the patient were quarantined. Currently, health officials have not reached a conclusion as to whether this person is re-positive or reinfected with nCoV.
Re-positive means that after curing the disease from the body, there are still corpses of the virus causing positive test results, Vietnam has currently registered several dozen re-positive cases and no case has shown risk of infection for others. Reinfection is a case that recovered from Covid-19 and then re-infected with a completely different nCoV gene. A person can be reinfected many times, both capable of being transmitted to other people, but it is not clear how severe or mild the disease is at the time of reinfection. The world has only recorded a few dozen cases of reinfection so far, and it continues to study this phenomenon.
This person from Russia to Vietnam on August 10, was quarantined and met in Chi Linh, Hai Duong. He was one of three people who were sent home by the isolation unit assembled in Hai Duong on the quarantine expiration date before receiving a second positive test result on August 25. At that time, 2, 6 people in close contact with isolated patients were admitted to the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases. He tried until September 17, took samples 7 times, then one was positive on August 26 and the remaining 6 were negative. After being released from the hospital, he isolated himself at home for two weeks.
On November 7, he developed a fever, was examined at the Hanoi Transport Hospital, was diagnosed with a viral fever, and returned home. On November 14, a patient with a fever of 39 degrees Celsius, tired, and a second examination was sampled by Hanoi Transport Hospital and sent to the National Children’s Hospital. The PCR test result on November 15 was positive for nCoV.
The initial epidemiological investigation identified 25 cases of close contact with the patient. At the patient’s home in Cau Giay district, Hanoi, three close contacts were identified: grandmother, father and brother. Currently the grandmother is isolated at home, the older brother works abroad, the father is isolated at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases 2 with the patient.
Hanoi Transport Hospital identified 20 cases of close contact with the patient, took 17 samples for analysis and isolated at the hospital, the test results were unknown. Three people are far away, they haven’t arrived on time.
In Ha Dong, a close contact was the patient’s girlfriend, took a sample for analysis, and isolated it at home.
In Dong Da, a close contact who was an acquaintance visited the patient for 30 minutes at the hospital on November 14, and was contacting him for isolation and sampling.
CDC Hanoi has announced relevant units to investigate and review close contact cases and related patients.
On the morning of November 16, the Ministry of Health did not register new cases, 74 days without community contagion, the total number of cases was 1,281. Hanoi, 89 days, had no community cases.
