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Health authorities are moving fast to contain Vietnam’s latest COVID-19 outbreaks — which so far include a total of 84 new cases — in northern provinces.
How the outbreaks were discovered
On January 27, Vietnam’s Ministry of Health announced that a factory worker living in Hai Duong Province tested positive for the UK variant of SARS-CoV-2 on January 26 after landing in Japan on January 17. She flew from Hanoi to Osaka via Singapore and tested negative before departure. The update prompted Vietnam to restart contact tracing in the province and testing the worker’s immediate social circle.
The search yielded Case 1,552, a 34-year-old coworker who had direct contact with the case in Japan. They worked together at a factory in Chi Linh City, Hai Duong.