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Both Vietnam’s first coronavirus patients tested negative for the Coronavirus

Bich Phuong Sunday | 02/02/2020 15:35

After the treatment, the Chinese father and son's test result was negative for nCoV virus. Photo: dangcongsan.vn

One more Chinese patient in Vietnam has tested negative for the novel Coronavirus in Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, doctors told local media on Saturday.

Patient Li Ding, 66 years old, one of first two confirmed nCoV patients in Vietnam has shown negative result after the initial test after days of treatment by Vietnamese doctors. However, further confirm test should be done for the patient. 

The newly recovered patient is father of Li Zichao, 28 years old, who was tested three times and turned up negative result earlier.

So far, Vietnam has reported two recovered patients, who are also two first Coronavirus patients detected in the Southeast Asian country after the epidemic outbreak alarmed in Wuhan city of China in mid-December.

Patient Li Ding, from Wuhan, who discovered corona virus on January 22 when visited his son Li Zichao working in Long An, a Southwestern province of Vietnam. The 28-year-old man contracted the virus from his father.

As of Sunday, Vietnam has confirmed 7 infected cases, including two recovered Chinese patients, one hotel receptionist who met the two Chinese patients, three Vietnamese returning from Wuhan, and a Vietnamese-American transiting Wuhan city while flying to Ho Chi Minh City, according to report from Ministry of Health. 

As of February 2, the coronavirus caused disease had been reported in 26 countries with 14,575 confirmed cases, including 305 deaths. Of them, 304 are in China and one in the Philippines.

► Vietnam confirms 7th case of deadly Coronavirus

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