HANOI: Vietnam's Ministry of Health on Saturday (March 7) confirmed another coronavirus case, raising the total number in the South-East Asian country to 18. The 27-year-old patient, who had been to the South Korean city of Daegu, returned to Vietnam on a Vietjet flight on Wednesday and was quarantined upon his landing.
People wearing face masks queuing up to buy a stockpile of groceries at a supermarket, amid concerns over the spread of the coronavirus, in Hanoi on Saturday . Vietnam reported its 18th confirmed case of the Covid-19, as the number of cases topped 100,000 worldwide. - AFP
The 27-year-old patient, who had been to the South Korean city of Daegu, returned to Vietnam on a Vietjet flight on Wednesday and was quarantined upon his landing, the ministry said in a statement. Nguyen Hong Nhung, a 26-year-old woman, was admitted to a hospital in the Vietnamese capital on Thursday suffering from fever, Chung told a news conference. Nhung had returned on Monday from a trip to Europe during which she visited London, Milan and Paris, according to Chung.
Nhung arrived in London on Feb. 16, flew on to Milan on Feb. 18 before returning to London on Feb. 20, according to a Hanoi Department of Health statement. Milan is in Italy's north, the heart of Europe's worst coronavirus outbreak.
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