Ministry warns about risk of MERS-CoV spread to Vietnam
The Middle East Respiratory Syndrome caused by the Corona virus (MERS-CoV), which has killed hundreds of people in the world, may penetrate into Vietnam, health authorities warn.
The Vietnamese Ministry of Health has called for the prevention of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome caused by the Corona virus (MERS-CoV), which has killed over 190 people worldwide, from penetrating into Vietnam.
Tran Dac Phu, head of the ministry’s Preventive Health Department, made the call after warning that MERS-CoV has spread to 19 countries, affecting 636 patients and killing 193 of them since it first appeared in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
From a number of Middle East countries, the syndrome has spread to Europe, America, Africa and Asia, Phu said, adding 75 percent of the recent number of patients were infected with the virus through the transmission from human to human.
The Corona virus causes a mortality rate of as high as 30 percent, Phu said.
Vietnam has yet to detect any people infected with MERS-CoV, but the virus may penetrate into the country in the future, as there are a large number of Vietnamese guest workers in the Middle East, he added.
He also revealed that the Philippines and Malaysia, two Southeast Asian countries, have recorded MERS-CoV infections among the people who returned home from their visits to the Middle East.
Anyone with symptoms of the syndrome, such as fever, coughing and difficult breathing, should go to medical facilities for examinations and treatment, he added.
In order to prevent the spread of MERS-CoV to Vietnam, the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi has tightened medical quarantine to detect infections.
The International Medical Quarantine Center has provided the airport with two infrared temperature sensors to detect visitors who have fever and signs of acute respiratory inflammation.
The airport has arranged two isolated rooms equipped with all necessary means including medicine to treat and take care of those with such conditions.
The Hanoi Health Department has requested that the center coordinate with the airport authority to closely examine all visitors, especially those coming from countries or territories being affected by MERS-CoV.
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