Vietnam Reports 45 New Danang Virus Cases

Health workers take blood samples from residents at a makeshift rapid testing centre in Hanoi on July 30.Photographer: Nhac Nuyen/AFP via Getty Images
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Vietnam confirms 45 more novel coronavirus patients who had been under quarantine in the coastal city of Danang, where officials have issued a stay-at-home order after reporting the nation’s first local virus case in 99 days last weekend, the health ministry said on its website.

The new cases are tied to hospitals, a health center and hotel providing quarantine services for Danang Hospital, according to the ministry. Danang ordered the lockdown of a fourth hospital where a U.S. citizen who tested positive for the virus had visited, Thanh Nien newspaper reported.