Officials identify 6 passengers sharing flight with a Japanese coronavirus patient

Five out of the six passengers who immigrated to Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday departed Vietnam for Australia, Philippines, and Thailand. One Vietnamese passenger was put under quarantine.

Relatives of this traveler were quarantined at home on Thursday morning, VnExpress cited Nguyen Tri Dung, director of the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control.

Right after the Japanese national tested positive for the virus upon arrival in Chubu Centrair International Airport Wednesday, twelve crew members and 51 out of 73 passengers on a Vietnam Airlines flight from Japan to Ho Chi Minh City were put under quarantine.

Twenty-two remaining passengers, all Japanese, were allowed to make connecting flights, Bloomberg cited the government’s information.

Two security staff and six employees at a Tan Son Nhat International Airport business lounge were also put in isolation after having close contact with the sick Japanese passenger, according to the government.

Earlier, the Japanese passenger with coronavirus had boarded a Vietnam Airlines flight from Cambodia’s Siem Reap to Ho Chi Minh City before making a connecting flight to Japan.

► A Japanese coronavirus patient found in a flight transiting Tan Son Nhat Airport

Source: Bloomberg, VnExpress