A medical worker sprays disinfectant to sterilise Hanoi’s streets (Photo: VNA)The on March 7 afternoon confirmed the 18th infection case in Vietnam, who is a patient returning from the
epidemic-hit Republic of Korea (RoK).
The National Institute
of Hygiene and Epidemiology said the same day that the 27-year-old male patient
from northern Thai Binh province arrived in the RoK’s Daegu city on February 17
and came back to Vietnam on flight VJ981 from Busan to Van Don airport in the
northern province of Quang Ninh on March 4.
After entering Vietnam,
the patient was brought to a concentrated quarantine area and had samples
tested positive for the novel .
A day earlier, the 17th infection case was reported in the capital city of Hanoi. The 26-year-old female
patient earlier visited her sister in the UK, then travelled to Italy and
returned to Hanoi on March 1 on flight VN0054.
Vietnam has to date
detected 18 COVID-19 infection cases. Of them, 16 patients had been
successfully cured and discharged from hospitals./.
Source: VietnamPlus
