Man in Bac Lieu tested positive for Covid-19 when tested for job application
A 49-year-old man from Soc Trang tested positive for nCoV when he went to the hospital to get a sample for a job application.
On February 28, the Covid-19 Prevention and Control Steering Committee of Bac Lieu province held an urgent meeting about the suspected case that had just been recorded in the area.
According to a report from the Bac Lieu Provincial Center for Disease Control, the suspected case is a 49-year-old man living in Vinh Thanh A hamlet, Vinh Hai commune, Vinh Chau town, Soc Trang province.
This person declared that he had not left the locality in the past 14 days, only worked for hire in shrimp farms near his home, and had not come into contact with any suspected or infected cases of Covid-19.
On February 27, he and 6 others from Vinh Thanh A hamlet rode motorbikes to a wind power company in Nha Mat ward, Bac Lieu city, to apply for jobs. They then went to Bao Anh restaurant in Nha Mat ward to drink coffee and contacted a wind power company employee named Huu to apply for jobs, who rented a house next to the restaurant to stay.
At 11am the same day, all 7 people ate at Ut Suong restaurant near their accommodation. At around 2:30pm, a man named Huu led the group by motorbike to Thanh Vu Medic Bac Lieu General Hospital to take Covid-19 test samples to complete the job application.
Here, this group of people came into contact with hospital staff and parking attendants. About an hour later, the 8 people returned to the motel, without stopping anywhere on the way, and at 5:00 p.m. that same day, they returned to Ut Suong restaurant to eat. At this time, there were no customers in the restaurant, so the group returned to their motel room to rest.
At 0:40 on February 28, the hospital announced that one person in the group had a positive PCR test result for Covid-19, a 49-year-old person. The PCR test is valid for confirmation.
Immediately afterwards, this person was quarantined at Bac Lieu General Hospital by the Covid-19 Prevention Steering Committee of Bac Lieu province. Investigation and tracing identified 32 close contacts (F1) of this person, who were taken to a centralized quarantine area in Bac Lieu city.
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| Suspected infected people are isolated and treated at Bac Lieu General Hospital. Illustrative photo |
On the same day, the Bac Lieu Provincial Center for Disease Control took samples of positive cases again and sent them to the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City for confirmation testing. F1 cases will be confirmed locally.
Chairman of Bac Lieu Provincial People's Committee Pham Van Thieu requested relevant agencies and units to quickly grasp full information of suspected cases to promptly trace related cases.
Localities must prioritize epidemic prevention and control, especially closely monitoring the situation of workers and experts coming to work at wind power projects, making health declarations and conducting tests. Localities must increase propaganda to raise people's awareness of epidemic prevention.
This is the first suspected community infection case in Bac Lieu in the past 30 days, in the context of Covid-19 outbreaks in many large epidemic areas from Hai Duong, Quang Ninh, Ho Chi Minh City...
