From Bernama
SAIGON – Saigon’s Health Department is taking measures to prevent the spread of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in Vietnam, Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reported.
FILE – This undated electron microscope image made available by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases – Rocky Mountain Laboratories shows novel coronavirus particles, also known as the MERS virus, colorized in yellow. On Saturday, May 17, 2014 the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said an Illinois man has apparently picked up an infection from the only American diagnosed with a mysterious Middle East virus, but the man has not needed medical treatment. (AP Photo/NIAID – RML, File)
The municipal international health quarantine centre will use remote body temperature apparatus to detect people with high fever at international airports, border gates and sea ports.
Those suspected of suffering from fever will be isolated immediately and receive preliminary checkups and tests.
The city’s preventive health centre will be responsible for monitoring in the community and preparing facilities and medicines to cope with the disease in the event of an outbreak.
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