COVID-19 infection cases in Vietnam reach 113 as of March 22

March 22 also
witnessed the biggest increase in the number of infections in a single day as
the country reported a total of 19 new cases.

The 107th case is a 25-year-old daughter of the 86th patient, residing in
Hanoi’s Thanh Xuan district.

The 108th patient is a 19-year-old student who returned to Vietnam from the UK on flight
VN054 (seat number 3K). He has been quarantined since his arrival in Vietnam on
March 18.

The 109th patient is a 42-year-old lecturer of a university in the UK. He came back to
Vietnam on March 15 on flight TG560 (seat number 37E) after transiting in
Bangkok, Thailand. He had been quarantined at a military school in Hanoi’s Son
Tay town before be transferred to the National Hospital of Tropical Disease in
Dong Anh district.

The 110th case is a 19-year-old student returning to Vietnam from the US on March 19. He
flew home on flight JL751 (seat number 1A) after transiting in Japan. She had
close contact with a confirmed patient in the US on March 8.

When
entering Vietnam, the patient had fever symptoms so he was brought to the National
Hospital of Tropical Disease in Dong Anh district for quarantine and treatment.

The 111th patient,
25, is a female student who came back home from France on March 19 on flight
VN018 (seat number 36D). The patient had sample taken for testing at Noi Bai
International Airport before being brought to a concentrated quarantine area in
Hung Yen province.

The 112th case is also a student returning from France. The 30-year-old patient flew home
on flight VN018 (seat number 22C) on March 18. Previously, she worked as a
part-time waitress at a Vietnamese noodle restaurant in France where she had
close contact with a suspected case who got cough recently.

The Hanoi
Centre for Disease Prevention and Control took her sample for testing before
bringing her to a concentrated quarantine area in Hung Yen province.

Lastly, the
113th patient is an 18-year-old female student returning to Vietnam
from the UK on flight VN054 (seat number 2A) on March 18. She was quarantined
and her sample was tested positive for the novel coronavirus .

All the
patients have been quarantined and treated at the National Hospital of Tropical
Diseases in Dong Anh district, and in stable health condition./.