All patients are related to two hotspots in Phuong Son commune (Luc Nam district) and Shin Young Vietnam Company Limited in Van Trung industrial park (Viet Yen district).

Worker at Shin Young Vietnam Company Limited is taken sample for Covid-19 test.

The hotspot in Phuong Son commune is now considered low risk of community infection while the outbreak at Shin Young Vietnam Company Limited is very dangerous and hard to control because of the high density of workers, quick travelling and infection rate in the industrial park. More cases are expected to be detected in the upcoming days among the F1 who are now under concentrated isolation as well as other cases.

So far, the Steering Committee has widely informed the Covid-19 situation so that local people can know, raise vigilance and voluntarily make medical declarations. The press and media agencies will actively disseminate information about the pandemic on the mass media to raise public awareness and create consensus and unanimity of the entire political system in participating in pandemic prevention and control.

The Health sector should coordinate with the districts and city to urgently inspect and trace all cases relating to F0, F3 even F4 in some places with enough condition.

Regarding Covid-19 patient, at May 9 night, the provincial Center of Disease Control took samples of 431 workers at factories No.7, 8 and 9 of Vina Solar Technology Company Limited in Van Trung industrial park (Viet Yen district) for testing which is now put in priority. As schedule, the test will have result in May 10 to have further effective preventive measure.

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