Green lane truck carrying suspected Covid-19 infected person in the truck bed
The force on duty at the quarantine checkpoint inspected and discovered that on the "green lane" vehicle there were 3 people hiding in the cabin and behind the vehicle, including 1 person suspected of being infected with Covid-19...
At 3:00 a.m. on September 12, the police force on duty at the inter-sectoral checkpoint No. 6 of Kien Giang province (at the end of the Lo Te - Rach Soi expressway, in Giuc Tuong commune, Chau Thanh district, Kien Giang province) discovered a driver named Nguyen Huu Kiet (born in 1979), residing in Ninh Phuoc district, Ninh Thuan province driving a truck with license plate number 79C 059.02 (registered in the green lane), so they signaled the vehicle to stop for a medical declaration.
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Medical staff took rapid test samples from 4 people in the car. |
Kiet said he was traveling alone, but when the inspection team checked the cabin and the back of the truck, they discovered three more people: Duong Minh Phuoc (born in 1989), Phan Quang Hong Thuyet (born in 1991) and Hoang Van Nam (born in 1985), all residing in Khanh Hoa province (all had negative test results for SARS-CoV-2 virus).
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Kiet, Nam, Thuyet and Phuoc were taken to temporary medical quarantine by authorities. |
During the investigation, driver Kiet initially admitted that he had previously carried an extra person on the bus once and was forced to return by the checkpoint. So this time, to fool the authorities, Kiet falsely claimed that he was traveling alone and asked the others to hide in the cabin and trunk of the bus.
Kiet and Nam were the drivers, while Phuoc and Thuyet were in charge of loading and unloading the goods. These four people drove a truck from Khanh Hoa province to pick up fruit and load it onto a truck in Phan Rang city, Ninh Thuan province, then transported it for hire to Ha Tien city, Kien Giang province for consumption.
Through rapid testing at the checkpoint this morning, the sample of subject Hoang Van Nam (in the back of the truck) tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Currently, these 4 people have been taken away by Chau Thanh District Police, Kien Giang Province in coordination with the District Medical Center.medical isolationtemporarily waiting for the real-time RT-PCR test results for Nam to see if he has Covid-19 or not.