Delegates at the Quang Ngai province bridge point
Health Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien on June 08 chaired an online conference with health sector of 63 provinces and cities in order to conduct measures to prevent the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus (MERS-CoV) if it spreads to Vietnam.
According to the World Health Organization, MERS-CoV has so far spread to 26 countries with 1,209 patients, 449 of whom have died. In the Republic of Korea, 87 cases have been recorded with six deaths.
In Vietnam, there has no case of MERS-CoV till June 07. Three cases of suspected infection in Vietnam have been tested negative to the virus.
At the conference, the Ministry of Health has asked the local authorities and health departments to actively identify MERS-CoV infected people to prevent it from spreading to the community.
Accordingly, suspected and infected people should be immediately quarantined and health workers must apply the necessary preventive measures.
Health Minister Tien has also asked all the border gates, including the international airports in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, to tighten medical quarantine to detect signs of the disease from international visitors, especially those from MERS-CoV-hit areas.
Hospitals have been asked to arrange isolation wards in their complexes and prepare enough drugs and equipment to receive and treat people infected with MERS-CoV.
MERS-CoV, first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012, belongs to a family of corona viruses including SARS, which haunted Asia in 2003.
The disease can spread between humans and causes fevers, breathing problems, pneumonia and kidney failure.
Minh Thien
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