
The man, born in 1984, arrived in Vietnam on April 17 andwas immediately put under 14-day quarantine at a hotel in Hong Bang district,the northern city of Hai Phong.
He tested negative for the coronavirus twice during the mandatoryquarantine period, and left for Hanoi on May 1 to stay with his wife and childrenat Park 10, Hoang Mai district’s Times City.
He visited Vinmec Hospital on May 3 for a commercialCOVID-19 test and his test result turned out positive. He is now undertreatment at the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi’s Dong Anh district.
Authorities are actively tracing people having closecontact with him for COVID-19 test and quarantine to prevent the virusspreading further.
A day earlier, Hanoi reported one case of COVID-19 in BacTu Liem District. He was on the same flight from Da Nang to Hanoi last weekwith two Chinese experts, who had later been found infected with COVID-19./.