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 2 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 Friendship Hospital proactively locked down the Obstetrics department immediately after the case appeared. Photo: Thanh Cuong

The Obstetrics Department - Nghe An General Hospital was quarantined from the early morning of June 29 due to being related to a man who took 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 took his wife to the Obstetrics Department - Nghe An General Hospital. Both husband and wife were tested for Covid-19 with negative results. 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 close to this couple were also infected with Covid-19.