Vietnam struggles to save British pilot, avoid first Covid death

Residents celebrate as police officers leave Dong Cuu, , the last quarantined village in Vietnam affected by the coronavirus disease, outside Hanoi, Vietnam May 1. (Reuters file photo)
Residents celebrate as police officers leave Dong Cuu, , the last quarantined village in Vietnam affected by the coronavirus disease, outside Hanoi, Vietnam May 1. (Reuters file photo)

bangkokpost.com – 14 MAY 2020 AT 17:30, WRITER: REUTERS

HANOI: Vietnam has mounted an all-out effort to save the life of its most critically ill coronavirus patient, a British pilot who works for Vietnam Airlines, the national carrier.

Through aggressive testing and a mass, centralised quarantine programme, the Southeast Asian country has kept its tally of coronavirus cases to just 288 and has reported no deaths.

Little expense has been spared to try save the life of the 43-year-old man, identified only as “Patient 91”, who caught the coronavirus at a bar in the southern business hub of Ho Chi Minh City in mid-March, state media reported. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam struggles to save British pilot, avoid first Covid death”

Vietnam to import 20,000 pigs from Thailand

bangkokpost.com 14 MAY 2020 AT 16:20 Writer REUTERS

This photograph taken on May 27, 2019 shows health officials spraying disinfectant on a dead pig at a farm in Hanoi before burying it in an isolated quarantined pit to stop the spread of African Swine Fever. (AFP photo)
This photograph taken on May 27, 2019 shows health officials spraying disinfectant on a dead pig at a farm in Hanoi before burying it in an isolated quarantined pit to stop the spread of African Swine Fever. (AFP photo)

HANOI: Vietnam will import 20,000 breeding pigs from Thailand this year, state media said on Thursday, as the country is seeking to rebuild its hog herd battered by an African swine-fever outbreak.

First detected in February 2019, the outbreak has forced the culling of around six million pigs, or 20% of Vietnam’s pig herd, resulting in higher pork prices and putting upward pressure on inflation. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam to import 20,000 pigs from Thailand”