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Vietnam detects first coronavirus case in nearly 100 days

Vietnam has detected its first locally-transmitted case of coronavirus in nearly 100 days, authorities said Saturday, in a country whose swift and full lockdown won praise for controlling the spread of the disease.

"Patient 416" is a 57-year-old retired Vietnamese man in the southern city of Danang. Local health officials have tested 105 people who had been in close contact with him. The man had taken his mother to a hospital before showing symptoms of the sickness.