Nine more people have been registered as having coronavirus in Vietnam, Vn Express has reported. Four of them recently flew into Hanoi, and the remaining five into Ho Chi Minh City.
The 77th patient is a Vietnamese woman aged 25, a
Vietnamese student in the U.K. She landed in Hanoi on March 17 on Qatar
Airways flight QR976.
The 78th
patient is also a Vietnamese student in the U.K. The 22 year-old landed in
Hanoi on March 17 on Emirates flight EK394, testing positive for Covid-19 two
days later.
The 79th
patient is a 48-year-old woman who has been living in the U.K. for two years.
On March 14 she flew from London to Dubai 14 on Emirates flight EK4, landing in
Ho Chi Minh City, and arrived in the country without showing symptoms. Her son is
“Patient 80,” an 18-year-old student.
“Patient
81” is a 20-year-old man from Kon Tum Province. He flew from Paris to Ho
Chi Minh on March 15 and arrived without symptoms.
The 82nd
patient is a teenage girl from Ho Chi Minh City. The 16-year-old flew from
London to HCMC (via Dubai) on March 15.
An
American woman, 50, is the 83rd patient. She flew from Istanbul to HCMC
on March 15. She had also just visited Phuket in Thailand.
“Patient
84” is a Vietnamese student in the U.K. from Hanoi, landing on March 18.
The 85th
patient, also a student in U.K., is a 20-year-old man who arrived in Hanoi on
March 18 on Vietnam Airlines flight VN54 from London, a route which has carried
many infected passengers to Vietnam.
Fifteen
cities and provinces in Vietnam have now confirmed cases of Covid-19.
The
coronavirus pandemic has spread to 178 different countries worldwide,
registering nearly 10,000 deaths.
