Vietnam's coronavirus cases rise to 20 - health ministry


A health worker disinfects an ambulance near the house of a corona virus infected patient at a quarantined street in Hanoi, Vietnam March 7, 2020. REUTERS/Kham

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's Ministry of Health on Saturday confirmed three new coronavirus cases, raising the number in the Southeast Asian country to 20.

One of the new cases, a 27-year-old patient who had been to the South Korean city of Daegu, returned to Vietnam on a Vietjet flight on Wednesday and was quarantined upon his landing, the ministry said in a statement.

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