TIẾNG VIỆT Vietnam reports one more confirmed case of novel coronavirus infection
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The new patient, 29 years old from Northern province of Vinh Phuc, was among 8 workers returning Vietnam from Wuhan city in China’s Hubei province on January 17.
The woman from Binh Xuyen district has been the sixth person in the group found contracting the deadly virus.
This is one of the remaining 3 people of the group who did not show any abnormal symptom and had been isolated at the medical facility.
Earlier, Vietnamese health officials found the 11th and 12th confirmed nCoV patients, the 49-year-old mother and 16-year-old sister of one of the above workers who returned from Wuhan.
So far, three of the patients have been discharged from the hospital. The global death toll from the epidemic has reached 638, with 636 dying in mainland China, one in the Philippines and one in Hong Kong.
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