Wednesday, 18/03/2020 17:07 (GMT+7)
The Ministry of Health on March 18th noon announced the 68th COVID-19 infection case in Vietnam, who is a 41-year-old US citizen living in the central city of Da Nang.
A board shows information related to COVID-19 at an airport in Vietnam (Photo: VNA)
The man, whose wife is a Vietnamese, went abroad on February 11th and travelled through many countries like India, Spain, Morocco, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary and the Netherlands.
He boarded flight SQ323 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, at 11:25am on March 13th and arrived in Singapore at 5:55am on March 14th. Later, he got on flight MI632 in Singapore at 9:15am on March 14th and landed at Da Nang International Airport at 11:00am the same day.
He has been kept in quarantine since his arrival at the Da Nang International Airport.
On March 18th morning, the Nha Trang Pasteur Institute in the south central province of Khanh Hoa confirmed that the man was tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes the acute respiratory disease (COVID-19)./.
CPV/VNA