Vietnam can treat SARS-like infection

Vietnam has yet to detect any cases of SARS-like infection, but can treat the disease, said Dr Tran Thanh Chuong, Deputy Head of the Preventive Medicine Department.

Vietnam has yet to detect any cases of SARS-like infection, but can treat the disease, said Dr Tran Thanh Chuong, Deputy Head of the Preventive Medicine Department.

Vietnam has yet to detect any cases of SARS-like infection, but can treat the disease, said Dr Tran Thanh Chuong, Deputy Head of the Preventive Medicine Department.

The medical sector has developed clinical guidelines for any patients infected with Coronavirus – a SARS-like virus that has killed six people around the globe, Chuong said on Tien Phong news wire.

The Ministry of Health has trained medical staff to diagnose and treat the disease if it is found in Vietnam, he said.

In a recent telegram, the ministry asked localities to intensify medical quarantine efforts at international border gates to early detect and isolate any cases suspected of catching this deadly virus.

Suspect samples will be sent to either the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology or Pasteur Institutes for testing.

Coronavirus, similar to the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus that spread globally in 2003 and killed hundreds of people, was first detected in the Middle East in 2012. Most infected cases travelled to Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan.

Experts raised concerns about a possible human-to-human transmission of Coronavirus after three people of a family in the UK contracted the virus. One of the three died on February 17.

Five other victims included three from Saudi Arabia and two from Jordan.