The municipal Department of Health decided to impose a temporary blockade on the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases in the evening of June 12 after some healthcare workers in the hospital tested positive for Covid-19.
HCMC Party Committee Secretary Nguyen Van Nen led a delegation of the city’s officials to offer incenses and flowers at national historical sites in District 5 and had a working session with the local authorities on May 10.
The Ho Chi Minh City -based Hospital for Tropical Diseases confirmed on Monday that Vietnam’s Covid-19 patient No. 1,660 carries a new coronavirus variant originating in the UK.