The Ministry of Health has confirmed one more COVID-19 infection cases, raising the patient tally to 241. 

The latest patient is a 20-year old male student living in District 2 of Ho Chi Minh City.

He returned to Viet Nam on March 22 on flight VN0050 from the UK and was taken to a centralized camp in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu.

He was tested negative for the first time on March 25 and got fever and sore throat six days later.

The same day, the ministry also confirmed that the 57th patient was released from general hospital in the central province of Quang Nam, bringing the total number of recovered patients to 91.

The recovered patient is a British man, aged 66, hospitalized on March 16./.