HANOI, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam has placed a town in the northern province of Ha Giang under quarantine after the province reported a COVID-19 infection earlier, Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday.
Dong Van town, covering about 27,500 hectares and home to 1,629 households with over 7,600 people, has been quarantined from Wednesday morning until further notice, the news agency quoted an official of Dong Van district, where the town is located, as saying.
Earlier on April 16, a girl in Dong Van district was confirmed to have contracted the virus with infection source unidentified, the news agency reported.
Following the report of the case, Ha Giang province placed the village where she lives and two hospitals that she had been to under quarantine.
Vietnam has recorded no new COVID-19 cases in the past five days after confirming the latest case on Thursday, with its total confirmed cases remaining at 268, among which 222 have recovered as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the health ministry. Enditem
