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Vietnam Sees Illegal Entry Risk Amid 1st Local Cases Since April
- Nation reports four new virus patients in central coast region
- Authorities quarantine hospitals, limit activities in Danang
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Vietnamese authorities are warning of new novel coronavirus risks from illegal entries into the country as the nation reported its first local cases over the weekend after more than three months of no new community infections.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said the country has let its guard down against the novel coronavirus after authorities reported four Vietnamese citizens -- from a 17-year-old male to a 71-year-old woman -- in the country’s central coast region had contracted the virus. Phuc said Vietnamese have become negligent and are failing to properly implement anti-virus recommendations from the government after the country successfully controlled the outbreak, according to a statement posted on the government’s website.