HANOI, March 30 (Reuters) - A courtroom in Vietnam
HANOI, March 30 (Reuters) – A courtroom in Vietnam handed a two-year suspended jail time period to a Vietnam Airways HVN.HM flight attendant on Tuesday after discovering him responsible of breaking COVID-19 quarantine guidelines and spreading the virus to others, police stated.
Duong Tan Hau, 29, was convicted of “spreading harmful infectious ailments” on the one-day trial on the Individuals’s Courtroom of Ho Chi Minh Metropolis, Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Safety stated in an announcement.
Vietnam has been praised for its efforts to include the virus via mass testing and tracing and strict centralised quarantining. It has recorded fewer than 2,600 COVID-19 infections and solely 35 deaths as a result of illness.
Hau breached the nation’s 14-day quarantine laws and met 46 different individuals following his flight from Japan in November, in line with the indictment posted on a police ministry web site.
Hau had mingled with different individuals throughout a stint in state quarantine and in line with the indictment visited cafes, eating places and attended English courses whereas he was presupposed to be self-isolating. He examined optimistic for COVID-19 on Nov. 28.
Hau’s violations resulted within the quarantine and testing of round 2,000 different individuals within the metropolis at a value of 4.48 billion dong ($194,192), the indictment stated.
State media stated he had contaminated no less than three different individuals.
“Hau’s violation was critical, put society at risk and endangered the security of the group,” the assertion stated.
Reuters couldn’t instantly attain his lawyer for remark.
In December, Vietnam sentenced the pinnacle of the Hanoi Heart for Illness Management and Prevention to 10 years in jail after discovering him responsible of wrongdoing linked to the procurement of apparatus meant to assist sort out the COVID-19 outbreak.
($1 = 23,070 dong)
(Reporting by Khanh Vu; Modifying by Martin Petty)
The views and opinions expressed herein are the views and opinions of the writer and don’t essentially mirror these of Nasdaq, Inc.