Health workers inject vaccines against diphtheria for people in Dak Ro Nga Commune, Dak To District, Kon Tum Province after two cases were reported. — Photo zingnews.vn

According to the province’s Health Department, the three latest diphtheria patients include two people aged 11 and 25 in Dak To District and another aged 10 in Sa Thay District. They are being treated at the districts’ health care centres and are in a stable condition.

The province’s Centre for Diseases Control on Monday took 36 testing samples in Dak To District and 52 in Sa Thay District.

Vice chairwoman of the province People’s Committee Tran Thi Nga said local authorities isolated people who had close contact with the patients or those suspected to have the disease.

She said local authorities also increased communication and called on people to get fully vaccinated to prevent diseases for themselves and the community.

So far, five out of eight diphtheria cases in the province have tested negative for diphtheria.

By Tuesday, the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong had gone seven days without any new cases of diphtheria after four were reported on Krong No District between June 3 and June 8 and eight cases were reported in Đắk G’long District between June 18 and June 22.

Of the 12 reported diphtheria cases in the province, a nine-year-old girl in Quang Hoa Commune, Dak G’long District died on June 20. It was reported she was not vaccinated against diphtheria.

Huynh Thanh Huynh, director of Dak G’long District Health Care Centre said that from the evening of June 19, local authorities isolated and tested people in the hamlet where the girl lived and two surrounding hamlets.

More than 800 people that were identified as having contact with the confirmed cases were quarantined in the community, Huynh said.

All of Quang Hoa Commune was disinfected, Huynh said.

Nguyen Ba Thuy, an official of Quang Hoa Commune, said quarantined people were given 5kg of rice each per week and other food was provided to those who needed.

Local commune officers and health workers went to every house in the affected areas to examine and give people medicine, which reassured them much after the death of the girl.

Besides Dak Nong and Kon Tum, HCM City also reported one case of diphtheria last week.  VNS

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