The 5 patients include 4 who were treated at Ho Chi Minh City’s Cu Chi field hospital and 1 treated at Da Nang Hospital.
2 of the patients are US citizens. The three remaining patients had travelled to coronavirus-hit countries such as the UK and France before returning to Vietnam.
The Ministry of Health in the early Saturday morning confirmed 2 more cases of the coronavirus, bringing the country’s total tally to 239.