Vietnam sets up 4 quick-response teams to prevent MERS-CoV
On June 5, the Vietnamese Ministry of Health has signed a a decision on establishing four quick-response teams to prevent the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome caused by the Corona virus (MERS-CoV).
Under the decision, these four teams will be deployed in four regions across the country.
The team for the northern region will be headed by Dr. Tran Dac Phu, Head of the Ministry’s Preventive Health Department. Vien Quang Mai, Director of the Nha Trang Pasteur Institute, will be in charge of the team for the central coast.
The two teams for the Central Highlands region and the southern part will be led by Pham Tho Duoc, Chief of the Central Highlands Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, and Phan Trong Lan, Director of the HCM Pasteur Institute.
These four teams will assist local health authorities in detecting people with signs of MERS-CoV, isolating and treating them properly, as well as in conducting activities to prevent and control the epidemic.
Establishing these teams followed reports that the disease has widely spread in the world since the deadly virus first appeared in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has requested that South Korea be put on the list of nine countries from which people visiting Vietnam must fill out a health declaration form before gaining entry, under a rule applied since July 1, 2014, when the disease spread widely.
The nine countries include Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iran.
She has also asked all the border gates, including the international airports in Hanoi and HCM City, to tighten medical quarantine to detect signs of the disease from international visitors, especially those from MERS-CoV-infected areas.
There have been 1,193 cases of MERS-CoV infection globally, of which 446 have resulted in death, since September 2012 when the virus first appeared, the World Health Organization reported on June 5.
The team for the northern region will be headed by Dr. Tran Dac Phu, Head of the Ministry’s Preventive Health Department. Vien Quang Mai, Director of the Nha Trang Pasteur Institute, will be in charge of the team for the central coast.
The two teams for the Central Highlands region and the southern part will be led by Pham Tho Duoc, Chief of the Central Highlands Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology, and Phan Trong Lan, Director of the HCM Pasteur Institute.
These four teams will assist local health authorities in detecting people with signs of MERS-CoV, isolating and treating them properly, as well as in conducting activities to prevent and control the epidemic.
Establishing these teams followed reports that the disease has widely spread in the world since the deadly virus first appeared in Saudi Arabia in 2012.
Remote temperature gauges at Tan Son Nhat airport
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The nine countries include Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen, Kuwait, Lebanon, Jordan, and Iran.
She has also asked all the border gates, including the international airports in Hanoi and HCM City, to tighten medical quarantine to detect signs of the disease from international visitors, especially those from MERS-CoV-infected areas.
There have been 1,193 cases of MERS-CoV infection globally, of which 446 have resulted in death, since September 2012 when the virus first appeared, the World Health Organization reported on June 5.
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