A three-month-old baby girl in Vinh Phuc Province has tested positive for the Novel Coronavirus (nCoV), becoming the 15th case in Vietnam and the 10th in the province.
A quarantine area for respiratory patients in Vinh Phuc Provincial General Hospital
The Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday morning that the baby girl is a relative of the 23-year-old worker Nguyen Thi Du, who was yesterday discharged from hospital after two weeks of treatment at the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
According to the baby's family, she was sent to stay with her grandmother for four days on January 28 before the grandmother showed health problems and was then tested positive for the virus.The baby and her mother have been quarantined since.
On February 6, the baby started to cough and her samples were taken for testing. The mother who is now in stable condition is waiting for the test results.
On February 9, a 55-year-old neighbour of the 23-year-old worker also tested positive for the virus. Before, the worker had also transmitted the virus to her mother, younger sister and aunt.
The neighbour paid a visit to the infected worker’s home on January 28 during the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival. She is among those who had close contact with the confirmed patient and has been closely monitored since then by the provincial disease control centre. She showed symptoms of fever, headache and sniveling on February 4. She was then brought to a clinic in Binh Xuyen district, Vinh Phuc province, for quarantine, check-up and treatment.