Hai Phong’s Transport Hospital locked down as employee tests positive for COVID-19
(VOVWORLD) - Hai Phong city’s Hospital of Transport was locked down on Monday after a 26-year-old nurse working as a receptionist there tested positive for COVID-19. The case was detected through mass screening.
 Hai Phong city’s Hospital of Transport is locked down on February 22, 2021. |
“Medical services at the hospital have been halted for disinfection. We are tracing all people who had contact with the patient and their relatives to prevent any COVID-19 spread,” said Hai Phong's Vice Chairman Do Viet Hung.
The patient’s residential area in Hoang Dong commune has been isolated and disinfected. The nurse, who did not exhibit any symptoms of COVID-19, said she did not travel out of the city in the last 14 days.
In addition to the nurse, Hai Phong recorded two more cases on Monday.
The same day, neighboring Hai Duong province confirmed 6 more COVID-19 cases, bringing its total number of infections since January 27 to 617. All of the latest patients had been sent to quarantine areas before testing positive for coronavirus.