The latest patient shared the same room with another person who had been confirmed positive and became patient 2795.

Both of them have been quarantined at Muong Thanh hotel in Nghe An’s Con Cuong Township after they were repatriated from Japan.

This is the second infection case documented in quarantine site over the past three days.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Ministry of Health reported that a 63-year-old man working at a hotel which has been designated as a quarantine site for Indian experts after arriving in Viet Nam tested positive for COVID-19./.