Health monitoring at Tan Son Nhat Airport in HCM City

Speaking with Dantri/Dtinews on March 5, director of the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Nguyen Tri Dung, confirmed that the five passengers included one Vietnamese, three French, and one Australian.

"However, only the Vietnamese passenger is staying in the city while the three French have already flown to Bangkok and the Australian passenger has returned to his country," the official said.

The official said that the Vietnamese passenger has been taken to a quarantine centre while people who had close contact with him were instructed to self-quarantine at their homes.

According to report from CDC, on the evening of March 3, a Japanese passenger boarded Vietnam Airlines flight VN814 with 72 others from Cambodia’s Siem Reap to HCM City, then took a transit flight VN340 to Japan’s Nagoya City.

After landing in Japan, the Japanese passenger showed symptoms of fever and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.

Flight VN814 carried 67 passengers and six cabin crew. Sixty-one passengers had connecting flights that night to London, Japan, Busan and Manila. Six passengers checked in at HCM City including one Vietnamese, three French, one Australian and one Filipino. The Filipino then flew home on Wednesday.

Right after being informed by Japanese authorities about the passenger's situation, CDC launched a search for the five passengers who checked into Vietnam.

All the crew from flight VN340 flight returned to Vietnam on flight VN341, which landed at HCM City's Tan Son Nhat Airport at 1:55 pm on Wednesday. The flight carried 73 passengers and 12 crew.

Accordingly, 51 passengers entering Vietnam and all the crew have been put into quarantine. The 22 others were also quarantined and are making arrangements for transit flights.

The aircraft used for flight VN341 has been disinfected.

At Tan Son Nhat Airport, two security staff and six service staff in the business lounge were also quarantined due to having close contact with the Japanese passenger.

Both Vietnamese and Japanese agencies are investigating the itinerary of the Japanese patient in Cambodia. Dtinews/VNA

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