Vietnam suspends inbound commercial flights after virus outbreak

The Vietnamese premier said inbound evacuation flights can continue but anyone coming in will still have to go into 14 days of quarantine. 

In related development, Ho Chi Minh City health officials have confirmed two more local cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday evening.

The two latest patients contracted the virus from Patient No. 1347 who had got the virus from a flight attendant. They are nephew and a student of Patient 1347, the country’s first community transmission in 88 days, VnExpress cited information from the Ministry of Health.

The nephew is a one-year-old toddler who’d been taken to the house of the patient on four different days. The student is a 28-year-old woman who attended a class taught by the patient on one of two campuses of the Key English language center.

The English teacher is a 32-year-old resident of District 6 who was confirmed positive for the novel coronavirus Monday.

The flight attendant whom he had contracted the virus returned to Vietnam on November 14 and was quarantined for four days at a facility managed by the airline in Ho Chi Minh City. After two tests showed he was negative for the coronavirus, he was asked to remain quarantined at his home in Tan Binh District. At home, he came into contact with his mother and two friends, including the English teacher who came to stay with him.

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