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According to the ministry's report, 49 of the new patients are infected in the community including two in Ho Chi Minh City and 47 in Hai Duong Province.
The four imported patients include a 55-year-old Vietnamese woman, a 39-year-old American man, a 39-year-old Taiwanese woman, and an eight-year-old South Korean girl who recently arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City.
The patients are now being treated at the Cu Chi Field Hospital for Covid-19 patients.
With these new infection cases, the number of imported Covid-19 patients in Vietnam has increased to 2,195, including 1,297 locally-transmitted cases with 604 cases reported since the new outbreak started in Hai Duong on January 28.
As of 6 pm on February 13, 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.
