Authorities in the northern port city of Hai Phong has locked down a hotel after a Japanese expert of an industrial park in the locality first tested positive for the virus. 

Hai Phong has recently disinfected the city to prevent the possible spread of the virus.
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The Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) in Hai Phong said October 5 it has received a phone call from Osaka, saying the Japanese man who worked for a company in the VSIP Hai Phong had tested positive upon his arrival in Japan.

The 1987-born man had undergone a PCR test for COVID-19 at Osaka airport and Japanese authorities had notified the positive case to Vietnam.

The VSIP company scrambled to review the man’s travel history in Hai Phong. Accordingly, the man was sent to Vietnam to work on January 26, 2018 and he returned to Osaka (Japan) on October 5. In Vietnam, he had stayed at a hotel in Vinh Niem ward, Le Chan district, Hai Phong city.

Local authorities isolated the hotel and disinfected the facility according to regulations on COVID-19 prevention and control. They quarantined 10 people on the fifth floor where the Japanese man had stayed together with those who had come into contact with the suspected case.

Local authorities are waiting for the result of the man’s second test result.