Lifting the blockade of the Obstetrics Department - Nghe An General Friendship Hospital

On July 11, Nghe An General Hospital lifted the lockdown on the Obstetrics Department and began receiving patients after two weeks of medical quarantine. Doctors, nurses, patients and their families were asked to self-isolate at home after the lockdown was lifted.

Nghe An General Hospital proactively locked down the Obstetrics Department immediately after the case appeared. Photo: Thanh Cuong

The Obstetrics Department - Provincial General Hospital was quarantined from the early morning of June 29 due to being related to a man who brought his wife to give birth here and tested positive for Covid-19. Accordingly, this man was a trader at Vinh wholesale market. On June 25, he brought his wife to the Obstetrics Department - Nghe An General Hospital. Both husband and wife were tested for Covid-19 and the results were negative. The next day, they went home. On June 28, he returned to the hospital to pay the hospital bill and continued to test positive for Covid-19. After that, a pregnant woman and newborn baby lying near this couple were also infected with Covid-19.