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Vietnam's health ministry denies rumor on MERS case

Xinhua, June 19, 2015 Adjust font size:

Vietnam's Ministry of Health on Friday denied a rumor of one patient infected with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in Hanoi.

According to a press release, a rumor spreading in a social network stated that the MERS patient, a South Korean who entered Vietnam on June 10, is being isolated for medical treatment in capital Hanoi by the ministry.

The rumor advised people living in the neighborhood to keep cautious and take up preventive measures.

Learning the case, the authorities instructed Hanoi Preventive Medicine Center to send a working group to the suspected area to verify the information.

The probe result showed that there is no South Korean citizen who is suspected of infecting MERS living in the area. Endi