The 32-year-old man is quarantined at the Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Hospital in Vietnam’s Vinh Long province. VIET NAM NEWS
A man who entered Vietnam illegally from Myanmar was the latest patient to test positive for Covid-19.
The 32-year-old Vietnamese citizen is currently under quarantine at the Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases Hospital in Vinh Long province where he lives.
He is the 1,440th person to test positive for the novel coronavirus.
Details of how or where he entered the country have not been released, but it is known he arrived in the early hours of December 24.
A family member informed the local authorities and he was taken into quarantine and tested for the virus. Results returned on December 26 confirmed he was positive.
A number of people he came into contact with since arriving into the country have been traced by medical staff and isolated.
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