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Vietnam man jailed for five years for spreading coronavirus
The man was sentenced for ‘spreading dangerous infectious disease’ after
breaching quarantine rules and passing Covid to at least eight people
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Vietnam has jailed a man for breaking quarantine and spreading the
virus. Photograph: Luong Thai Linh/EPA
Reuters
Mon 6 Sep 2021 19.17 EDT
A court in Vietnam has jailed a man for five years for breaking strict
Covid quarantine rules and spreading the virus to others, state media
reported.
Le Van Tri, 28, was convicted of “spreading dangerous infectious
diseases” at a one-day trial on Monday at the people’s court of the
southern province of Ca Mau, the state-run Vietnam News Agency reported.
Vietnam had been one of the world’s coronavirus success stories, thanks
to targeted mass testing, aggressive contact tracing, tight border
restrictions and strict quarantine. But new clusters of infections since
late April have tarnished that record.
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“Tung travelled back to Ca Mau from Ho Chi Minh City … and breached the
21-day quarantine regulations,” the news agency said. “Tung infected
eight people, one of whom died due to the virus after one month of
treatment,” it added.
Reuters did not immediately reach the Ca Mau court for comment.
Ca Mau, Vietnam’s southernmost province, has reported only 191 cases and
two deaths since the pandemic began, much fewer than the nearly 260,000
cases and 10,685 deaths in the country’s coronavirus hotspot, Ho Chi
Minh City.
Vietnam is battling a worsening Covid outbreak that has infected more
than 536,000 people and killed 13,385, the vast majority in the past few
months.
The country has sentenced two other people to 18-month and two-year
suspended jail terms on the same charges.
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