That is information provided by Ms. Ngo Thi Kim Yen, the Director of City Department of Health in the online conference on the implementation of health policy in 2020 and the prevention of Covid-19 epidemic under the chairmanship of Vice Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam with 63 central provinces and cities at more than 700 points on the morning of February 25.
The city has quarantined the foreigners at the Lung Hospital while 57 Vietnamese came to the quarantine at the Training Center of the City Military Command (1 Vietnamese who had a fever was transferred to the Lung Hospital for isolation. glass). However, once arriving the Lung Hospital, foreign visitors refused to enter but after consultation and advises of the Korean Consulate, the abovementioned Korean visitors agreed to temporarily stay in Lung Hospital for isolation.
Ms. Ngo Thi Kim Yen, Director of the Department of Health said that Da Nang is considering the best plan is to arrange flights to bring passengers back to Korea if they are willing to, or else they will carry out isolation following the procedure of the Ministry of Health in the Official Letter 868.
According to Ms. Yen, Da Nang now has a high risk of infection. Since February 9, there have been plenty of flights from Korea to Danang in a large scale. Therefore, within the afternoon of February 25, city leaders will check all tourist attractions and hotels …, estimating the number of foreigners coming from the epidemic area to produce the plan of concentrated isolation areas.
Regarding diplomatic issues, Ms. Yen stated that city leaders had asked the Department of Foreign Affairs to issue a written request to the Korean Consulate to coordinate with the health sector to consult the above quarantined people.
“In the past few days, the health sector in Da Nang was under anxiety and the direct phone calls for advice from the Ministry of Health leaders are available for early detection and timely isolation of patients suspected of epidemics. However, when there was no official notice from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, yesterday witnessed a flight from Daegu. We are pressuring to make plans that ensure both diplomacy and isolation, prevention of epidemic prevention effectively. Currently, 58 Vietnamese have been isolated, 20 Korean and 2 Thai nationals are also stable. Da Nang will make its greatest efforts to meet the prevention and diplomacy as well as the wishes of tourists… ”, Ms. Yen informed.
The head of the Da Nang Department of Health also proposed Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang to timely support Da Nang in testing the case of Covid-19. By now, the Da Nang Center for Disease Control (CDC) is able to test nearly 20 samples coinciding with the result of Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang but it needs approval of the Institute.
“Da Nang desires to deploy and recognize the results of the Covid-19 test instead of transferring patient samples to Pasteur Institute of Nha Trang”, Yen said.
According to https://www.danang.gov.vn/web/guest/chi-tiet?id=38495&_c=100000150,3,9
