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Fflag carrier Vietnam Airlines announced on March 19 that it will suspend all international flights between now and April 30 amid the worsening COVID-19 pandemic.

MOFA requests Vietnamese citizens in Vietnam to adhere to authorities' recommendation on not to travel abroad, especially to epidemic-hit areas.

The number of Russian tourists visiting Nha Trang in the south-central coastal province of Khanh Hoa has remained stable, despite Vietnam being among one of several countries globally to be impacted by the acute respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh attended a special meeting of the ASEAN Coordinating Council in Vientiane on February 20. The meeting aims to coordinate efforts and discuss ASEAN joint work against coronavirus outbreak.

A three-month-old baby from the northern province of Vinh Phuc, Vietnam’s youngest coronavirus disease patient, has been successfully treated, according to the National Children’s Hospital.

Coronavirus outbreak: Developments from Feb.1 to 18

Amid the spread of Covid-19, public security officers at international airports are shouldered with intense pressure of preventing any penetration of the disease into Vietnam while protecting themselves.

Son Loi commune in Binh Xuyen district, Vinh Phuc province is considered Vietnam’s epicenter of Covid-19. In response to the local situation, the Ministry of Health has deployed a special task force and numerous preventive measures.

The financial market in 2020 will become much more unpredictable and less active than the predictions made at the end of 2019 due to impact caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) epidemic, according to a financial analyst.

Deputy Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen said the isolation of the novel coronavirus is an important step in treating COVID-19 infection cases.

Chinese patient Li Ding, 66, one of the two first Covid-19 patients in Vietnam, was discharged from Cho Ray hospital in Ho Chi Minh City on February 12 after three weeks of treatment.

ASEAN member countries are joining hands to fight the acute respiratory disease caused by novel coronavirus that has so far killed more than 1,100 people in adjacent China and infected 45,170 globally.

Directly contacting with nCoV patients, physicians and nurses at Emergency Department of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases are under pressure from not only the disease but also their surrounding people.

By 7:30 Feb. 11, 2020, 43,099 confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV infection have been reported globally, including 1,018 deaths (1016 in China and 2 outside mainland China). Vietnam has so far reported 15 cases of 2019-nCoV infection.

Philippine health authorities on February 10 announced that the country’s first patient infected with the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) was discharged from the hospital.

Three patients from the northern province of Vinh Phuc infected with the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) have recovered and were discharged from the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases (NHTD) in Hanoi on February 10.

An acute respiratory disease hospital dedicated to nCoV prevention has come into operation in Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City.

Three patients from the northern province of Vinh Phuc infected with the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) have recovered and were discharged from the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi on February 10.

The Embassy of Qatar has purchased four tonnes of watermelon to help farmers in Vietnam’s central region, said the embassy on February 10.

By 7:45 on Feb. 10, 2020, 40,553 confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV infection have been reported globally, including 910 deaths (908 in China and 2 outside mainland China).