Students wear face masks in the classroom at the Thang Long Secondary School in Hanoi to avoid disease infection (Photo: VNA)

The Ministry of Health said on Sunday that the patient is currently quarantined at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City. The man, born in 1947, boarded flight No. 660 of China Southern Airlines from the US to Vietnam on January 14. On January 15, he transited an airport in China’s Wuhan city, the centre of the nCoV epidemic, in two hours. On January 16, he arrived at Tan Son Nhat Airport of HCM City and moved to Trieu Han Hotel on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai street in Ward 5 of the city’s District 3. The man showed symptoms on January 26 and was hospitalised on January 31. The testing result indicates that he is positive for nCoV.