Vietnam isolated nearly 100 suspected MERS cases

As of July 3, Vietnam has isolated 96 suspected cases of MERS-CoV for testing and all have negative results for MERS.

Isolate nearly 100 suspected MERS cases

Prof. Dr. Tran Dac Phu, Director of Preventive Medicine Department affirmed that until now, Vietnam has not had any cases of MERS infection.

As of July 3, there were 96 cases of suspected MERS infection isolated for testing and all were negative.

"The monitoring and detection are conducted very transparently and promptly, with no hidden stories , " Phu affirmed.

According to Phu, there have been recent reports in some places where patients with MERS have been infected, and the Ministry of Health immediately verifies that there is an official announcement so that people do not panic.

Passengers traveling from areas with MERS outbreaks entering Vietnam must make a medical declaration at the border gates.

Since May 20, when South Korea announced the MERS epidemic, Vietnam has urgently applied surveillance measures with medical declarations and body temperature gauges at all border gates, while promoting training, communication for people to raise awareness.

The director of the Preventive Medicine Department said that over the past few days, even when the MERS epidemic in Korea tended to settle down, the Ministry of Health continued to monitor and continue to promote epidemic prevention activities, not whether to lower the level of prevention or neglect.

The application of medical declarations to passengers traveling from epidemic regions including the Middle East and South Korea is still underway with an estimated 4,000 sheets per day.

" Many people think that the health sector seems to be overly worried. However, I affirmed that all measures of the health sector over the past time have been aimed at preventing intrusion or if any, will be detected , manage and isolate immediately not to spread to the community.

To prevent epidemics from happening, the epidemic prevention and control activities are extremely important and cannot be prevented from epidemics before they can be prevented, 'Phu stressed.