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The workers arrive at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases'
Campus No.2 outside Hanoi's downtown area (Photo: VNA)
According to him, all 219 Vietnamese workers who returned to Vietnam
from Equatorial Guinea on July 29 have been tested and only 20 of them positive
for the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, he said.
The Vietnamese workers had been stranded in the African country, with initial
information asserting that nearly half of them already confirmed positive for
SARS-CoV-2.
Cap explained that many of the workers were confirmed to be suffering from
COVID-19 in Equatorial Guinea but had tested negative now possibly because they
had recovered from the disease.
However, health care workers are still cautious and strictly deploying disease
preventive measures to avoid risks of cross-infection, he said.
He added that all nine critical patients in the group, including six patients
with lung damage and three with malaria, had seen their conditions improve.
“We have been closely monitoring such complicated cases as we foresee risks if
we ignore other diseases that the COVID-19 patients also have,” Cap said, adding
that so far, there were no serious complications.
The 219 workers, the flight crew of eight and four health care workers who
escorted the repatriation flight were taken into quarantine at the Kim Chung
branch of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases right after their arrival
in Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport.
Earlier, all patients at the hospital were moved to the hospital's campus in
downtown Hanoi to make room for, and to be safe from a large number of
coronavirus carrying returnees.
Source: VNA
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