A man from Hanoi who was on the same flight as the city’s first coronavirus patient has been confirmed as having the virus, Vn Express has reported
The man, 61, is a local and lives on the same
street in Truch Bach in Ba Dinh as 26-year-old Nguyen Hong Nhung who was found
to have Covid-19 on Friday, according to the Ministry of Health Sunday.
The man sat near Nhung on a business class flight
from London to Hanoi on March 2, the ministry said.
He is currently being quarantined at Hanoi Central
Hospital for Tropical Diseases No. 2, where Nhung is also undergoing treatment.
The flight had 201 passengers, including 21 in business
class, according to Vietnam airlines director Duong Tri Thanh on Saturday.
Eighteen of the business class passengers were foreigners while the remaining
three were Vietnamese.
The country has now recorded five cases since
Nhung tested positive on Friday to become the city’s first Covid-19 patient. Before
this, the country had gone 22 days without any infections.
The latest patients include Nhung’s aunt, her
chauffeur and a 27-year-old man returning to Vietnam from Daegu city in South
Korea.
Hanoi has now had four confirmed coronavirus infections.
