Vietnam reports first local coronavirus infection in 3 months

Vietnam has reported its first local coronavirus infection for more than three months after a man in the central city of Danang tested positive four times for the virus.

A government statement said on Saturday.

Thanks to strict quarantine measures and an aggressive and widespread testing programme, Vietnam had kept its virus total to an impressively low 415 cases, and had reported no locally transmitted infections for 100 days.
Vietnam has reported no deaths from the virus.

But on Friday, the health ministry said a 57-year-old man from Danang, a tourist hot spot, had tested positive, prompting the isolation of 50 people he came in contact with.

The ministry said 103 people connected to the patient were tested for the virus but all returned negative results.

The government said on Saturday a new test had confirmed the man’s infection, bringing the total number of cases in Vietnam to 416.

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