COVID-19 patient charged with spreading dangerous disease Police in the Mekong Delta Province of Vinh Long announced on January 19 that they have launched legal proceedings against COVID-19 Patient No.1,440 for having illegally entered the country while carrying the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 late last year.
The 33-year-old man, whose name was given as L.T.T., was charged for the crime of “spreading dangerous contagious diseases for humans,” according to Col. Huynh Thanh Mong, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Public Security.
However, T. was still being treated for COVID-19 so the investigation is facing a number of difficulties, Mong said.
Covid-19 infectee illegally entering Vietnam faces criminal charges
By Huy Phong January 19, 2021 | 06:40 pm GMT+7
The facade of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Hospital in Vinh Long Province where a man is being treated with Covid-19 after illegally entering Vietnam. Photo by VnExpress/Cuu Long.
Vinh Long police have launched a criminal investigation against a man who tested positive for the novel coronavirus after illegally entering Vietnam.
Le Thuc Tri, 33, is being investigated for spreading dangerous infectious diseases in humans, Colonel Huynh Thanh Mong, deputy chief police officer of the southern province, told the press Tuesday.
Under Vietnamese law, a person can be criminally charged if he/she carries dangerous pathogens capable of infecting humans into the country, a crime punishable by up to 12 years in jail under Vietnam s Penal Code.
Without job in Myanmar, Covid-19-infected man pays $2,155 to illegally return to Vietnam
By Cuu Long December 31, 2020 | 08:00 am GMT+7
Border guards in An Giang Province with a sniffer dog patrol around the border area with Cambodia, August 2020. Photo by VnExpress/An Phu.
A man from Vinh Long Province, who illegally entered Vietnam and was diagnosed with Covid-19, reportedly paid VND50 million ($2,155) to a people smuggling gang to return home.
The 32-year-old, one of six people who illegally entered from Cambodia through An Giang Province on December 24, tested positive for the coronavirus two days later, but had been anxious and worried the gang would hurt his family if he revealed its operations to local authorities, his mother Tran Thi Hang said via phone from a quarantine facility in Mang Thit District.