HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc just signed a decision declaring the 2019 novel coronavirus (nCoV) an epidemic in Vietnam, following the sixth confirmed case of infection in the country earlier on Saturday (Feb 1).
The declaration notes the starting date of the epidemic as January 23, where the first two cases of the pneumonia-like virus infection in Vietnam were confirmed to be a pair of Chinese father and son originally from Wuhan, China.
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