Hanoi contact tracing of new Covid-19 cases

Authorities in Hanoi are searching for people who have visited five places which relate to the newly-infected Covid-19 patients.

Authorities in Hanoi are searching for people who have visited five places which relate to the newly-infected Covid-19 patients.

  

Hanoi authorities search for people who visited Garden Hill apartment building on February 8

As of 11 am on February 8, Hanoi reported two new Covid-19 cases which both live at the Garden Hill apartment building in Nam Tu Liem District. Both of them are being treated at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. One of them is the daughter of Patient 2009 and the other is their house helper.

The authorities in Hanoi issued an announcement asking those who have visited five locations in Nam Tu Liem District to report to the local medical stations.

These locations include the Garden Hill apartments from January 29 to February 7, the flea market on the opposite of Garden Hill, the food shop, the hair salon of the Garden Hill urban areas from February 2 to 4, and Viettel Store on Doi Can Street from 1 pm to 5 pm on January 29.

A total of five patients at Garden Hill have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 until now.

Patient 1694, a worker at Factory Z153 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 and later infected another worker, Patient 1772. Patient 1772 later infected Patient 2009 when they talked to each other at the entrance of the Garden Hill, both wore face masks. Patient 2009 had coughing and a fever on February 5 and tested positive two days later.

The locality authorities disinfected the buildings and took testing samples of 1,200 suspected cases.

On February 8, HCM City authorities had an urgent meeting after 24 new cases were reported. In many cases, the result of the tests came back negative for F1 patients who had been in contact with the patient 0, but the results were positive for F2 patients who had been in contact with F1 patients.