Deputy Director of the Da Nang Department of Health Nguyen Tien Hong on Tuesday debunked false news circulating on social media related to the coronavirus in the city.

The Dak Lak woman is under isolation at the Hospital for Lung Diseases

False claim that a staff member of the Da Nang-based Ba Na Hills Golf Club who had close contact with the city's first two cases of the virus escaped from the quarantine site, and returned to her hometown in Dak Lak Province.

Dr Hong affirmed that the woman in close contact with the UK visitors who played golf at the Ba Na Hills Golf Club on 4 March, returned to her hometown after ending her shift at this golf club on 8 March.

After the two British visitors tested positive for the virus on 8 March, leaders of the Ba Na Hills Golf Club asked this woman to come back to Da Nang to go into quarantine for 14 days. At that time, she was in Dien Ban Town, Quang Nam Province, and she then caught a coach from there to Da Nang for coronavirus isolation.

Currently, she remains quarantined at the city’s Hospital for Lung Diseases.

“During her 14- day quarantine period, the Dak Lak woman is very cooperative, and her throat swab and blood serum samples are being tested for the virus at the lab of the municipal Centre of Disease Control”, Dr Hong remarked.

By PHAN CHUNG - Translated by MAI DUNG