HANOI (Reuters) -
Vietnam is close to completing the conversion of a sports stadium into a
1,000-bed field hospital in its new coronavirus epicentre Danang, the health
ministry said on Thursday, as it battles an outbreak that has spread to at
least 11 locations.
Aggressive contact-tracing, targeted testing and strict
quarantining had helped Vietnam halt an earlier contagion, but it is now racing
to control infections in the central city and beyond after a new outbreak ended
a run of more than three months without domestic transmission.
Danang’s Tien Son Sports Palace will from Saturday be used
to treat an overflow of infected patients should the city’s hospitals become
overwhelmed, said the company behind the project, Sun Group.
Danang has reported more than 200 cases since the virus reappeared
there on July 25. Authorities have said the situation was “under control” and
the outbreak would likely peak in the next 10 days.
If infection numbers stabilise, the facility would be used
to isolate people who were in direct contact with a positive case, as part of
Vietnam’s centralised quarantine programme, Sun Group said.
The health ministry reported 34 new COVID-19 infections on
Thursday, taking Vietnam’s total cases to 747, with 10 deaths.
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