HANOI: A new coronavirus outbreak in Vietnam spread to two more provinces on Wednesday, the country’s health minister said, as the Covid-19 task force declared the contagion “under control” in the central city where the outbreak began.
The health ministry confirmed 43 new cases on Wednesday, bringing Vietnam’s total infections to 713, with 8 deaths. Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long told state media on Wednesday the outbreak had expanded to the provinces of Bac Giang near Hanoi and Lang Son, bordering China, both linked to the Danang infections.
The outbreak in Danang, currently under lockdown alongside Quang Nam province, was “under control”, the government’s Covid-19 steering committee said late Tuesday.All but six of its cases have been traced to three of the city’s hospitals, the committee said, and the six had not infected anyone else.
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