Test results of 25 Nghe An people on the same flight with the Covid-19 infected person are available

On the evening of March 19, Dr. Nguyen Van Dinh - Director of Nghe An Provincial Center for Disease Control (CDC Nghe An) said that the unit had just received test results of 69 people from the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology. The results showed that all of them were negative for Covid-19.

Of these, 25 people were on two flights with Covid-19 infected people, flight SU290 from Russia and flight QR968 from Qatar, both arriving at Noi Bai on March 13. On these two flights, Nghe An had 27 people. Of these, one person's name and exact hometown have not been determined (this person stated that he was Ho Van Ninh, from Thanh Tung commune, Thanh Chuong district), one person showed signs of fever, was tested in advance, transferred to a treatment facility and tested negative.

The remaining people who also returned from abroad are being quarantined at district-level medical facilities.

Checking the body temperature of citizens returning from Laos. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Previously, immediately after receiving information from the Ministry of Health about flights with people testing positive for Covid-19, Nghe An issued an urgent document to search for Nghe An passengers. After only a few hours, they were found and taken to centralized quarantine and tested. One case named Ho Van Ninh (reported to be from Thanh Tung commune, Thanh Chuong) has not been found yet. Although the authorities have checked the entire population in the commune, they have not found anyone with the same name.

According to Mr. Nguyen Van Dinh, the unit has just sent 10 more samples to the Central Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology for testing and the results are not yet available. Tomorrow, Nghe An is expected to take samples from more than 100 people in centralized quarantine for testing. These are citizens who have just returned from Laos.