30 Vietnamese citizens arrive at Van Don International Airport in Quang Ninh province, February 10, 2020. (Photo: VNA)

Their plane landed at Van Don International Airport in Quang Ninh province early Monday. The citizens, including an eight-month pregnant woman, are in stable health. They will be taken to the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases for quarantine and observation. 14 cases of coronavirus infection have been confirmed in Vietnam so far.

Vietnamese authorities decided to delay the reopening of several border gates with China until the end of this month.  China is keeping personnel in isolation and so does not have enough officers to clear goods passing through the border, according to Vietnam’s consulate in Nanning.

Workers began returning to offices and factories around China on Monday as the government eased some restrictions in the wake of the epidemic that has now killed more than 900 people, mostly on the Chinese mainland. Sunday’s death toll of 97 was the largest in a single day since the outbreak was first detected in December at a seafood market in Hubei province’s capital, Wuhan.