HANOI, Feb 8 (Vietnam News/ANN): Tan Son Nhat international airport in Ho Chih Minh City continues to operate normally after one of the airport staff tested positive for the coronavirus according to airport authorities.
Pham Vu Cuong, deputy director of the airport, said: “The infected employee did not come into contact with passengers because he works for the luggage loading service. His infection has not affected the airport’s operation.”
“The airport has activated the highest level of pandemic prevention measures since the northern outbreak in Hải Dương and Quảng Ninh provinces,” he added.
At an urgent meeting on Saturday afternoon, Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuab Tuyen said: “There is no need to shut down the country’s largest airport.”
“It’s hugely urgent to trace and test those who had close contact (F1 and F2) with the employee and one of his two younger brothers who later tested positive for the virus, in both the city and Bình Dương Province,” Tuyen said. “The entire airport was disinfected immediately.”
About 60 people came into contact with the two patients, city authorities said on Sunday morning (Feb 7).
The airport employee tested positive after travelling from HCM City to his hometown in Bình Dương Province. A block of apartments where the patient and his two brothers live was locked down immediately.
The HCM City Centre for Disease and Control (CDC) said it confirmed the employee’s positive test after testing 5,900 out of nearly 7,000 employees at the International Airport, beginning on Jan 30, as ordered by the city government following the third wave of local infections from the north.
The HCM City CDC rushed to test the remaining 1,000 employees of the airport through the night and completed all the samples by Sunday morning. The results will be annouced as soon as possible, they said.
According to the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), all employees of Vietnam’s 21 airports out of 22 airports have been told to be tested for Covid-19.
Of the 22 airports, the Van Don airport in Quảng Ninh Province, which has been receiving repatriation flights with a number of passengers testing postive for Covid-19, has been locked down since Jan 28 after a number of airport employees tested positive. It is set to reopen on Feb 13. - Vietnam News/ANN
Pham Vu Cuong, deputy director of the airport, said: “The infected employee did not come into contact with passengers because he works for the luggage loading service. His infection has not affected the airport’s operation.”
“The airport has activated the highest level of pandemic prevention measures since the northern outbreak in Hải Dương and Quảng Ninh provinces,” he added.
At an urgent meeting on Saturday afternoon, Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuab Tuyen said: “There is no need to shut down the country’s largest airport.”
“It’s hugely urgent to trace and test those who had close contact (F1 and F2) with the employee and one of his two younger brothers who later tested positive for the virus, in both the city and Bình Dương Province,” Tuyen said. “The entire airport was disinfected immediately.”
About 60 people came into contact with the two patients, city authorities said on Sunday morning (Feb 7).
The airport employee tested positive after travelling from HCM City to his hometown in Bình Dương Province. A block of apartments where the patient and his two brothers live was locked down immediately.
The HCM City Centre for Disease and Control (CDC) said it confirmed the employee’s positive test after testing 5,900 out of nearly 7,000 employees at the International Airport, beginning on Jan 30, as ordered by the city government following the third wave of local infections from the north.
The HCM City CDC rushed to test the remaining 1,000 employees of the airport through the night and completed all the samples by Sunday morning. The results will be annouced as soon as possible, they said.
According to the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), all employees of Vietnam’s 21 airports out of 22 airports have been told to be tested for Covid-19.
Of the 22 airports, the Van Don airport in Quảng Ninh Province, which has been receiving repatriation flights with a number of passengers testing postive for Covid-19, has been locked down since Jan 28 after a number of airport employees tested positive. It is set to reopen on Feb 13. - Vietnam News/ANN
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