The patient, a 51-year-old Vietnamese woman, flew from Vietnam to New York (USA) transiting Incheon of South Korea on February 22.

She took a flight from Washington back to Vietnam on February 29, with a stopover in Qatar Airport, and entered Vietnam on March 2 at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City.

In the morning of March 9, she was hospitalised in Binh Thuan Province, and is now receiving treatment at the provincial hospital.

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