Health Ministry announces five new COVID-19 cases

The
62nd patient is an 18-year-old Vietnamese students returning from
the UK on March 16 on a flight of Vietnam Airlines which landed in Van Don
airport, Quang Ninh province. Testing at the airport showed he was positive for
SARS-CoV-2 and the result was confirmed later. He is now hospitalized at the
Vietnam-Thuy Dien Uong Bi hospital in Quang Ninh, in stable health condition

The
63rd case is also a Vietnamese student returning from the UK.  After her flight landed in Noi Bai airport,
Hanoi, on March 15, she was tested and confirmed to be positive for the coronavirus.
The 20-year-old girl is in stable health condition and being treated at the
Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases No2.

The
64th patient is a 34-year-old woman residing in Ho Chi Minh City.
She travelled from Switzerland through Dubai to Vietnam on March 12, and was
taken to a concentrated quarantine facility on March 16. She tested positive
for SARS-CoV-2 on March 17, but showed no symptoms.

The
65th patient, who resides in Ho Chi Minh City, had contact with and
worked together with the 45th and 48th patients on March
7 and 10. The 28-year-old woman was taken to a concentrated quarantine facility
on March 13, and confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus on March 17.

The
64th and 65th patients are now hospitalized in the Cu Chi
acute respiratory disease hospital. They are both in stable health condition. 

The
66th case, also a resident in Ho Chi Minh City, flew from Pennsylvania,
the US on March 14 to Toronto (Canada) then Taiwan (China) and arrived in
Vietnam on March 16. Tests the same day confirmed the 21-year-old woman was
infected with SARS-CoV-2. She has so far showed no symptom.

As
of 19:00 of March 17, the number of COVID-19 cases in Vietnam was 66, with 16
patients already cured./.