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According to the ministry's report, the two new patients are infected in the community including a 25-year-old man in Bac Ninh Province and a 33-year-old woman in Hanoi.
They are now being quarantined and treated at local hospitals.
With these new infection cases, the number of imported Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 2,142, including 555 locally-transmitted cases reported in 13 localities since the new outbreak started in Hai Duong on January 28.
As of 6 pm on February 12, a total of 1,531 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.
At present, as many as 129,098 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
