On the afternoon of March 26, 2021, the Center for Disease Control of Binh Duong Province announced urgently to find a person related to a Patient 2585, Chinese nationality who illegally entered Cambodia.

Specifically, at 24:00 on March 23, 2021, he hired a man as a service offering unauthorized people from Cambodia to Vietnam by motorbike, when entering Vietnamese territory, out of the border areas; he was arranged on a 04-seater car (unknown number plate) by a Vietnamese driver brought to Thuan An City, Binh Duong Province at 3am on March 24, 2021.

The Center for Disease Control of Binh Duong province suggests that whoever is the driver of a 04-seater car carrying BN2585 within the above mentioned time and place, contact the local health authority immediately to make medical declarations and receive prescribed preventive instructions.

Patient 2585, 44 years old, Chinese nationality, address in Thuan An City, Binh Duong. On March 23, the patient illegally entered Vietnam by motorbike at Moc Bai border gate, Tay Ninh, then moved to Binh Duong by car. On March 25, the patient came to test at the Center for Disease Control in Ho Chi Minh City. On the afternoon of March 25, the patient tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. Currently, the patient is isolated and treated at Binh Duong General Hospital.

Reported by Mai Xuan - Translated by Nguyen Trang