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Having reported four COVID-19 cases after a gap of months, Vietnam has ramped up its coronavirus control measures. These are locally transmitted cases that has raised worried for the country.
The country has been lauded as a success story of the pandemic having acted early to close borders and enforce quarantine and contact tracing. It has recorded just over 400 cases and no deaths, and had gone nearly 100 days with no new cases.
The new cases are all linked to Da Nang, a central coastal city popular with domestic tourists.
The first case – of the total 4 patients – was a 57-year-old man who sought medical care on 20 July for flu symptoms and was diagnosed with Covid-19. He is now on a ventilator and according to doctors quoted in local media, in a critical condition.
Officials say they do not yet know where he contracted the virus and that he had not recently left the city. Contact tracing identified more than 100 people who had interacted with the man, but all returned negative tests.
However over the weekend, three more cases were confirmed. One was a 61-year-old man in Da Nang, who is now on a ventilator. It was unclear whether he was linked to the previous case. The second was a 17-year-old man who had been visiting Da Nang from neighbouring Quang Ngai province but had travelled home on a coach with people who had been at the Da Nang C Hospital.
And a 71-year-old woman who had been admitted to the same hospital for chest pains also tested positive.
Da Nang C Hospital sealed its doors in response to the first diagnosis. The city has reintroduced social distancing measures and has banned incoming domestic tourism for 14 days. Non-essential businesses have been ordered to close and gatherings of more than 30 people are banned.
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