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According to the ministry's report, the 28-year-old woman arrived from India at Van Don International Airport in Quang Ninh Province on October 29.
She was sent to a local quarantine area upon arrival and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on November 12 on her second testing.
The patient is now being treated at the Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
With this new infection case, the number of imported Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 562.
As of 6 pm on November 12, a total of 1,093 Covid-19 patients had recovered and been discharged from hospital. There have been 35 deaths, most of them being the elderly with serious underlying diseases.
The country has gone 70 days without reporting any new case in the community.
At present, over 15,000 people who had close contact with Covid-19 patients or returned from virus-hit areas are being monitored at hospitals, quarantine facilities, and at home.
