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Vietnam records no Ebola virus infection

Vietnam has recorded no Ebola infections to date, deputy head of the Health Ministry’s Preventive Medicine Department Dang Quang Tan has announced.

During a meeting of the Vietnam Public Health Emergency Operation Centre in Hanoi on June 4, Tan said there are no direct flights between Vietnam and DR Congo. Only about 30 passengers from DR Congo had checked in at Noi Bai and Tan Son Nhat airports in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

According to him, DR Congo recorded the first Ebola case in 1976. The outbreak erupted in three Western African countries between 2014-2016 and reoccurred in early April 2018 in DR Congo.

As of May 29 this year, 58 people in DR Congo had been infected with Ebola during the latest epidemic, killing 27 of them.

Speaking at the event, Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said the risk of Ebola infection in Vietnam is low because infections mostly occur in sparely-populated and remote areas. However, agencies should stay alert to the epidemic.

He said the Health Ministry is working with international organisations to keep track of epidemics as well as strengthening supervision in communities, at border gates and in hospitals.

Long asked the health sector to enhance training of health officials on disease identification, prevention and treatment.

Local authorities were required to oversee the control of other epidemics such as influenza A/H1N1, A/H7N9, dengue fever and MER-CoV virus.

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Reporter : Pichanan Inpota
Rewriter : Rodney McNeil
National News Bureau & Public Relations


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